Guns, Germs, and Steel Notes

Today we watched more of our video about guns, germs, and steel. I took more notes and here they are.

• Middle Eastern people became the first famers in the world. The technical term is plant domestication = farmer.
• Where and What different parts of the world grew. Middle East - wheat and barely. China - rice. North and South America - corn, squash, beans. Africa - sorghum, millet, yams.
• People in Papua New Guinea have been farming for over 2 thousand years.
• Geographical  Luck
• Animal Domestication in the Middle East
• They used goats for milk, hair for clothes, eat them, help with plant domestication, fertilizer, eat bad parts of the plant.
• Goats and sheep were the first domesticated animals.
• There are 14 domesticated animals that are helpful and are breed. They are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, balli camel.