Thursday, February 3, 2011

2/3/2011 guns germs and steel video

   Today in class we reviewed what we’ve learned so far in the movie. Because there were more people on the land, more people produce more food more efficiently. Making plaster from limestone was a major technological breakthrough. Places like Pap. Never discovered technology, according to Diamond, people didn’t advance because they spent why too much time trying to feed themselves. The Fertile Crescent is the bases of civilization, great crops and useful animals stopped people from hunting and gathering. The Fertile Crescent is upon a great landmass, Eurasia. Something has the same latitude as the Fertile Crescent, it was easy to trade and migrate. When things got dry in , they moved east or west, they could still raise the same animals and crops. Papuanewguinea is isolated, they we’re stuck in time and didn’t progress like other people. Papauanewguniea, didn’t have much to offer to other countries, therefor they not nothing in return. The Middle East got a huge head start. Jarred Diamond realized the answer to the African American’s answer, geography. If the Papuanewguniea’s had as much advantages as the rest of the world, they could have invented more things. 

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