Looking Deeper

To start off class today Mr. Schick had to fix some things. Some people haven't subscribed to his blog yet so they needed to. He was having some trouble with Kamau's blog. We talked about where we are in the movie. After that we started to watch movie of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

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- Wheat & Barely: Stores better, Protein
- Domesticated Animals: goats & sheep.


      Jarred Diamond, why were Europeans the ones with all the cargo? This was still a questions to be answered. He found that is was because of geographic luck. In the middle east there was wheat & barley which was easily stored. The people of Papa New Guinea were out of luck. They had to use their whole day to find & make food. Farming started to emerge into the other countries, but New Guinea didn't advance. New Guinea farmers were just as good as the others. Their food wasn't as good and couldn't be stored. It didn't have much protein. Americans have always had a lead over New Guinea because they have produced more nutritional foods. Can plants alone really shape the human history? Or was there something else? 9,000 years ago people were surrounded by domesticated wheat and barley, but now they were surrounded by a new remarkable source of food. They had domesticated animals. They could drink the milk for protein, use their fur for clothes, and they could eat the meat. They could use the animal droppings for fertilizer. Goats and sheep were the first to be domesticated. They were first just used for meat until they found they could use them for much more. They started using horses for plowing their crops. It was so much easier than to have to do everything on your own. With the help of the animals they could help feed twice as many people. In New Guinea they only had pigs. The only muscle power there was human power. Till this day they are still human powered. Their are nearly 2 million animal species. Some animals have been domesticated. The best to farm are large plant eating animals. Humans have tried to domesticated all of them, but have failed. They are been domesticating elephants. A domesticated animal needs to get along with humans and live in families. It has to be a social animal. Out of 148 plant eating mammals 14 are domesticated animals are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, 2 kinds of camels, water buffalo, lamas, reindeer, mithns, yack's, and cattle. Just 14 large domesticated animals and 10,000 years of domestication.