Today we continued watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. Here are my notes:
- People started growing their own food and stying in one location.
- became the first farmers in the world.
- Plant domestication=farming
- Chose plants that were the best and used them to grow more of the same quality produce.
- Places where the first farming happened
- China-rice
- Americas-corn, squash, beans
- Africa- sorgum, millet, yams
- Civilizations advanced because of farming
- exception: Papua New Guinea
- Why no civilization?
- Only have sago, taro root, and bananas
- no grain
- can't be stored
- low protein
- People with access to the best crops had the best civilization
- GEOGRAPHIC LUCK
- 9,000 years ago
- animal domestication
- people control movement, feeding, and breeding of animals
- used meat, milk, and fur/skin
- can eat stubble after the harvest and fertilize the ground
- Goats and sheep were the first to be domesticated
- after came pigs, cows, and horses
- could pull a plow through the fields, help with farming
- Papua New Guinea only has pigs
- can only get meat
- no milk or fur
- can't help farm
- 14 animals have been domesticated
- goats
- sheep
- pigs
- cows
- horses
- donkeys
- Bactrian camels
- arabian camels
- water buffalo
- llamas
- reindeer
- yaks
- mithans (ox)
- bali cattle
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