More Guns, Germs, and Steal

           Jared Diamond goes back in time and studies how people used to live.  Hunter gatherers travel in packs and hunt for stuff to eat.  Jared Diamond has the opportunity to see that with the New Guineans.  New Guineans are very smart with their surroundings and our very strong.  The movie than moves to the Middle East.  Hunter gatherers roam around looking for stuff to eat and never bother to make a home.  Eventually they stop acting like animals and realize they didnt have to keep moving and learned how to grow things.  Granary is a place where you store your grown food.  It saves it from insects, weather, wind etc.  The granary was and oval shaped whole in the earth.  It mostly stored wheat and barley.  Stone age Middle East people were the first farmers.  The people in China are also one of the first to start farming.  They mainly grew rice.  New Guinea was also one of the first farmers.  However, farming wasn't as easy in New Guinea.  The climate wasn't as good and their crops didn't have as much protein.  Sometimes they would even have to eat giant spiders to supplement their diet.  Farming is a big part of earth’s history.  Some people just have more geographic luck.  Some people were born in good farming climates, but others like the people in Papua, New Guinea.

First day of Western Civilization!

For the first day of western civ, we watched a movie called Guns, Germs, and Steal.  It is all about a man named Jared Diamond who studies the progression of different parts of the world.  He is a professor at UCLA.  In this movie it is focusing on Europe and how it took over most of the world.  He studies why they were so advanced whereas other countries like America for example were not.  In the movie he goes to Papua, New Guinea.  The New Guineans live like they did 4,000 years ago!  Even though we only watched about five minutes of the movie I learned that they are actually very smart.  They can make protective little shacks out of nothing but nature.  We also learned a little bit of vocabulary, haves are people like us.  We have electronics more than enough clothes and food etc.  Have nots are people who do not.