More Guns, Germs, and Steel

We watched more of Guns, Germs, and Steel in class and took more notes. Here are some of them.

• all great civilizations have these 3 things in common: technology, large populations, well organized work force
• Pre-history (13,000 years ago-hunters/gatherers)
• the only place left on the world where people are hunter/gatherers. Papua New Guinea
• sago vs. wheat and barely, sago tree has pulp in the center and can be made into dough, 70lbs from tree but takes days to deal with it. It will go bad in a few days.
• barely and wheat was grown in the Middle East and was plentiful.
• Draa - earliest permanent settlements ever
• had the worlds first granary ( able to store food in any weather condition.)

Jared Diamond is still trying to figure out why some countries or areas of people prospered before others.