Guns, Germs, and Steel.
- Jared Diamond- Biologist at UCLA
- Papuanewguinea
- "why do you white men have so much cargo, and us New Guineans have so little
- great civilizations have added technology, large populations, and well organized work force
- PNG still lives in the hunter- gather lifestyle
- Sego- parts from a sego tree that can be ate and used in multiple ways
- They grow barley and wheat
-Draa
-Granary- stores food
- The way human tame things is domestication
- rice in china
- americas had corn, sorghun, beans
- africa had millet, yams
-New Guenians are low on protein
- most productive crops = productive society
- comes down to geopgraphic luck
-9000 years ago we domesticated animals
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