Today we finished watching guns, germs and steel. Here are my notes:
- None of the 14 domesticated animals are native to Papua New Guinea.
- All of these animals were from North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- These are the places that advanced
- Cows, pigs, sheep and goats are native to the middle east
- Fertile Crescent
- Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 9,000 years old
- town in Middle East
- used plaster
- and other tech advancements
- about 100 people lived there
- Papua New Guinea doesn't have tech advancements
- doesn't produce enough food for everyone to have time to develop tech advancements
- Fertile Crescent
- Abandoned
- over use of land
- not fertile anymore
- no water
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