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While working in New Guinea in 1972, where he was studying bird progression, Jared Diamond achieved an area politician touring the area. At the time, Papua New Guinea was getting close freedom after long being given by Australia. Yali, the politician, spoke about organizing his people for freedom, and asked Diamond many questions about history and other topics. Finally, he wished to know why the conquering Europeans got showed up with so many goods and technology, as the New Guineans got so little of their own. It seems to be a simple question, yet answering it took Diamond 25 years. Weapons, Germs, and Material: The Fates of People Societies, is his try to answer not only Yali's question, however the entire question of why some peoples in some elements of the planet developed technological improvements before others, and just why a few of them were then able to conquer other peoples using those improvements.