Today in class, we took notes on a video about Jared Diamond. Here are some notes I took:
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
-papuanewguinea- island between Asia and Australia
-living about 30 or 40 thousands years ago
-"Why do white men have lots of cargo and we don't?"
cargo-possessions and wealth
-record players and guns- carried whites across river
-all great civilizations have had these in common: advanced technology, large populations, and a well organized work force
-sego- important source of food
men- hunters women-gatherers
barely and wheat
drout lasted more than a thousand years
Draa- Middle East, carbonating, very first permanent settlement, small village
-village first emerged 11 1/2 thousand years ago
-granary- food storage, dirt walls, allows you to keep grain there for grinding for food, believe it was an oval shaped mud wall, durable to be stored for years
domestication- study of amount and traits of plants, various grains
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