today was our first class in like 3 days since we've had off since of snow. we continued watching the guns, germs, and steel video. we learned of the fourteen domesticated animals. none of the animals were from New Guinea. the llama was from South Africa. Asia, North Africa, and Europe stored the remaining 13 species. the four big livestock were pigs, sheep, goats, and cows. they were from the Middle East. there is a town in the Fertile Crescent called Gwar. 9,000 years ago it was an old civilization they made plaster with burned limestone at 1,000 degrees
Today we watched a video called "Guns, Germs, and Steel". The main guy in the video was Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA, a biologist, an author, and is passionate in the study of birds. He traveled to Papua, New Guinea to learn what it was like to live there. People have lived in Papua for over 40,000 years with a similar life style. Cargo stands for there material goods. Pre-historical times (about 13,000 years ago) everyone was a hunter or gatherer. Sago- staple food that comes from trees. Barley + wheat were main crops.
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