Please answer at least one of the following questions:
- Diamond proposes that the processes through which past and present societies have undermined themselves by damaging their environments fall into 12 types (8 relate to past societies, while 4 apply to more contemporary societies). Identify and briefly describe the 12 problems. Summarize the general trajectory of past collapses. Choose 3 categories and provide examples of each from the readings.
- Describe and discuss Diamond’s 5-point framework for analyzing societal collapse. Please be specific and provide at least one example for each problem from the readings and/or your own knowledge and experience, define pertinent terms.
- Please describe the different types of agriculture. Discuss the ways in which the Anasazi and their neighbors used agriculture and its results, according to Diamond. Please be specific and give examples from the readings and lecture.
