The document discusses the proximate and ultimate factors that allowed Europeans to conquer Native Americans rather than vice versa. Proximate factors included European advantages in guns and steel. However, the ultimate factors were geographical differences that influenced disease resistance, domesticable animals, and agriculture. Variations in geography, climate and plant/animal life led to Europeans developing larger societies based around farming, while Native Americans relied more on hunting and gathering. These agricultural societies were better equipped for conquest.

1. Why were the Europeans
able to conquer the Native
Americans, and not the
other way around?

2. Why were the Europeans
able to conquer the Native
Americans, and not the
other way around?

4. PROXIMATE factors
vs
ULTIMATE factors

5. PROXIMATE factors

6. Guns, Germs, Steel

7. ULTIMATE factors

13. Geography, Animals, Agriculture

14. “Geography”

15. “Geography”

16. “Geography”

17. Animals

18. “Mammalian Candidates
for Domestication”

20. Domestication Dates

21. “Deadly Gifts from Our
Animal Friends”

22. “Deadly Gifts from Our
Animal Friends”

23. Agriculture

24. “World Distribution of Large-
Seeded Grass Species”

25. Agricultural SOCIETIES

26. Agricultural SOCIETIES

27. Why were the Europeans
able to conquer the Native
Americans, and not the
other way around?