Blog week 1 - 3

 Guns, Germs, and Steel

·     Conquest by Europeans 

·     Growing Bareli and wheat would have advance them.

·     Jarred Diamond

o  Professor at UCLA

o  Biologist by training 

o  Specialist in human physiology

o  Author

o  Bird watcher

·     Papua New Guinea

·     Yalie àwhy do white men have so much cargo? And us New Guineans so little?

·     Exploration of guns, germs, and steel

·     Why have since ancient times have some countries developed faster than others?

·     Haves – Not Haves  àhave things – don’t have things.

·     Power is determined by race 

·     Not advanced, does not understand modern things.

·     They make the New Guineans carry the white men across the river.

·     Advanced technology, large populations, well-organized work force.

·     Middle East 13,000 years ago was a Hunter-Gatherer system.

·     Sago trees for food.

·     Sago doesn’t last very long.

·     People have been living there for over 40,000 years which is longer then people living in North America.

·     Draat, Canadian Archeologist, Dr. Ian Kuijt (NDU)

·     Cargo was material possessions/things you have.

·     China advanced because they had rice.

·     Africa advanced because they had sorghum, millet, yam. 

·     America’s advanced because they had corn, squash, beans.

·     New Guineans are disadvantaged because they didn’t have a stable food supply.

·     Plant Domestication

·     They eat spiders for protein 

·     GEOGRAPHIC LUCK

·     Grainery is where people stored grains.