Why was the spread of disease in the americas one-sided

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Write 50-100 words answers to each question below. Write in complete sentences. Your answer must exhibit polish (correct spelling and grammar).

Introduction to the film:

This film is based on Prof. Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel. This book and the film are his answer to a question he received on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local man named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Diamond realized that Yali's question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history -the roots of global inequality-and sought to find an answer for thirty years. In this episode, he focused on the European conquest of the Americas, which changed the course of history for the next five centuries.

A. List four advantages that Europeans had in 1500 over the Incas that explained their surprising conquest of the Americas.

B. Why did Atahualpa, the emperor of the Inca Empire, decide to invite Francisco Pizarro and conquistadors to his camp? What was the consequence of this decision?

C. Why was the spread of disease in the Americas one-sided?

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