Today in class we watched the rest of the Guns, Germs, and Steel video. We learned from the notes that it took that the reason why Papuanewguinea is still so far behind in the modern world is because of a couple things. One: they don't have a great food supply to be able to live somewhere permanently instead of being hunter/gatherers. Another reason that they aren't very civilized to the modern world is that they don't have the animals to collect and use for more than just eating.
The reason why all the people in the Middle East became more civilized is because they had the right food supply, such as, wheat. Wheat and grains was their main food supply and it was a great food supply because wheat was very easy to store for long periods of time. The other reason that the Middle East developed so quickly was because a lot of the animals that are native there are very useful to living in big tribes. Such as sheep, and lambs. They are great for making clothes and giving off good meat.
Plants that emerged over the world are: rice, corn, squash, beans, sorghum, millet, and yams.
Rice came from China.
Corn, squash, and beans came from America.
Sorghum, millet, and yams, came from Africa.
Dr. Jared Diamond researched as many animals as possible, and he found 148. He only found 14 animals out of 148 are domesticated, which means that those 14 animals can work for people and help them out.
The 14 animals are: goat, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, backtrain camels, arabian camels, water buffalos, llama, reindeer, yack, mithans, and bali cattle.
The llama came from South Africa.
The rest of the animals came from Asia, and North Africa.
Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats came from the Middle East.
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