Diamond realized that Yali’s question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history -- the roots of global inequality.
Why were Europeans the ones with all the cargo? Why had they taken over so much of the world, instead of the native people of New Guinea? How did Europeans end up with what Diamond terms the agents of conquest: guns, germs and steel? It was these agents of conquest that allowed 168 Spanish conquistadors to defeat an Imperial Inca army of 80,000 in 1532, and set a pattern of European conquest which would continue right up to the present day.
Diamond knew that the answer had little to do with ingenuity or individual skill. From his own experience in the jungles of New Guinea, he had observed that native hunter-gatherers were just as intelligent as people of European descent -- and far more resourceful. Their lives were tough, and it seemed a terrible paradox of history that these extraordinary people should be the conquered, and not the conquerors.
To examine the reasons for European success, Jared realized he had to peel back the layers of history and begin his search at a time of equality – a time when all the peoples of the world lived in exactly the same way.
In a personalist regime, the power is held by a single leader, whose demands become law for the entire country.
This regime is a form of autocracy. It is a government system that operates as an absolute monarchy or a despotate. Personalist leaders are able to appoint friends or family to important offices. As a consequence, population gain respect for their leader. For example, the Kim dynasty in North Korea.
Answer: The North had way more manpower.
Explanation: The north was always populated to begin with since the living standards were a lot higher than in the south. And when the northern states "forbided" slavery a mass migration of African Americans from southern states moved to the northern states. They migrated to find a better life up in the north(before the civil war). When president lincoln gave the to go sign that African Americans were able to enlist in the army during the American civil war it gave the North a manpower increase, one that the south didn't have since the south did not allow African Americans to be enlisted in thir arms.