Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Using the readings from Guns, Germs, and Steel and The Big Questions in Science, the Sky News video, and the National Public Radio audio podcast as background, write a well-documented, 500- to 1000-word APA-compliant paper that addresses the following:

Examine at least two examples of cultural contact between civilizations in which the exchange created significant cultural and/or societal changes.

Based on these past events, identify both cautions and possible guidelines for similar situations that are occurring in the present or might occur in the future.