Guns, Germs and steel
Jared Diamond:
- has traveled around the world
- Papua New guinea
- is a bird watcher
- UCLS Las Angeles professor (biologist)
- cargo- possessions or stuff you own
- human Philosophy
- Newguineans thought power was determined by race
- all great civilizations have some things in common:
- advanced technology
- large population
- well organized work force
- sago tree- a lot of food in it
- not super nutritious
- have to eat it quickly
- takes awhile to harvest
- barley and wheat were food in the Middle East
- very plentiful
- Drah- very earliest village or early official settlement
- granary- a place to store food
- domestication- cross pollination, cross breed things
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