Guns, Germs and Steel (continued)

• various places that are able to grow crops
• China: rice
• America: corn, beans, squash
• Africa: sorgum, yams 
• Papa Newguinea: sago
• only allowed to live on the settlement if they became more productive 
• animal waste can be used as fertilizer
• goats and sheep are the first domesticated animals 
• if you want to have good domesticated animals you need to have animals that are able to give birth around the age of one or two
• Diamond counted 148 plant eating animals, over 100 pounds that are able to be domesticated:
• goats
• sheep
• pigs
• cows
• horse
• donkeys 
• camels (2 kinds)
• water buffalo
• lama 
• reindeer
• yaks 
• mithans 
• cattle