february 3

Today in class we continued watching the film gins, germs, and steel. Here are my notes:

• Whats separates the haves and the havenots?
• Why do white men have so much cargo and we in New Guinea have so little?
• white men came in and took advantage of them
• showed them new things
• thought they were less "evolved" 
• they are intellegent in their own way 
• Why have so many sociaties advanced?
• 1. advanced technologies
• 2. large populations
• 3. well organized work force
• Sago
• starchy 
• no protein
• cant store for along time
• Barley and Wheat
• in middle east 
• can be stored
• Draa 
• place near Dead Sea
• prob first place and oldest permanant settlement that archeologists have found
• 11500 years ago
• prob first granary- place to store grain 
• How would they fill a granary in the drought?
• people GREW their OWN food
• planted fields of wheat and barley 
• first farmers 
• domestication- changing the way plants would behave in the wild to how it could help humans survive
• what places grew
• China- rice
• Americas- corn, squash, beans
• Africa- sorghum, millet, yams
• New Guinea had farmers for prob 10,000 years, but they DONT have wheat
• GEOGRAPHIC LUCK!!
• those who had grain/wheat/barley were lucky to have it grow in their region 
• New Guineans were not lucky 
• ANIMAL DOMESTICATION 
• clothes 
• meat
• fertilizer
• pull plow
• milk
• hides
• control the "alpha animal" and you can control the whole herd
• 14 species of animals that have been successfully domesticated :
• goats
• sheep
• pigs
• cows
• horses
• donkeys
• Bactrian camels 
• Arabian camels 
• water buffalo
• llamas
• reindeer
• yaks
• mithans
• vali cattle 
• South America had 1: llama 
• Asia, Europe, North Africa had the other 13
• Cows, sheep, pig, goat: Middle East