Today in class, we took more notes on the video of Jared Diamond.
China grows rice
Americas- corn, squash, and beans
Africa- sorghum, milet, and yams
Big spiders- protein
If you had the most productive crops, you were a productive farmer
(It was geographic luck)
hunt and kill- weapons or rocks
raising own animals, something to eat
supply of milk and wool
milk-on going protein
wool-clothing and for warmth
animal waste- fertilizer
goats and sheep were the first
horse harvest to a plow allowed more food to feed people
almost all farm work was done by hand
have to weigh 100 lbs or more
carnivore- kill and eat other animals
148 domestic animals out of 2 million
goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithan, bali cattle- all domesticated
Just 14 in 10,000 years
South America- llamas
cows, pigs, sheep, and goats- food
Fertile Crescent-best animals and farming in the Ancient world
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