Video Watching Again

"History has gone very differently for peoples from different parts of
the world. The last ice age ended 13,000 years ago. Since then, some5 parts of the world developed literate industrial societies with metal
tools. Other parts developed only nonliterate farming societies. Still others had societies of hunter-gatherers with stone tools. Those historical inequalities still influence the modern world. They enabled the more advanced societies to conquer or exterminate the other ones.
These differences are the basic facts of world history. But the reasons for them remain uncertain and controversial. Why did these differences develop? This puzzling question was posed to me 25 years ago in a personal way
In July 1972 I was studying bird evolution on the tropical island of New Guinea. I started talking to a remarkable local politician named Yali as we walked together.
Yali asked me, 'Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?'"

 This is an excerpt from Jared Diamond's book about the Papua New Guineans, which is similar to the script written for the video we are watching. 

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