Guns, Germs & Steel

Today in West Civ we continued watching Guns, Germs, & Steel:

-In Middle East they have barley and wheat to eat; it's way better to eat then sago.
-Draa: the oldest kind of permanent settlement that has been explored (Birth of Settlement)
-Granary: a place "Draa" used to store and protect their crops (wheat and barley)
-They collected seeds and started growing them beside their settlements (becoming the first farmers)
-Changing the way a plant "lives" to help the people eat or harvest is Cultivation  of Domestication (it's also determining whether the fruits and plants are good enough to eat)

-They also eat spiders.
-The Chinese first grew rice, the Americans and the South Americans grew corn, squash, and beans, in Africa they grew sorghum, millet, and yams.

-Jared's Diamond theory is that the people who developed quickly with food, had GEOGRAPHIC LUCK

-But could plants really shape human development.
-Animal domestication- animals were used for meat (food), milk, hair and skin use.
-Animals became essential to settlement.
-With certain amount of animals, they were there to "help".
-After harvest the animals would eat the rest of cereal grain in return, they created fertilize the plants and grains.

-goats and sheep were among the first to be domestic animals.
-the only muscle they had is human because some animals weren't muscled.
-Carnivores aren't good at being domestic.
-Your ideal domestic animal should be able to give birth at the age of 1-2 years.
-If they're social animals and can control the leader, they can control the whole land.
-Only 14 species of animals have been domestic. (goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, Mithras, baly cattle).

-South America only had one species of animals - llama
-Asia, North Africa, Europe is where the animals originated
-Cows, pigs sheep, goats originated in the Middle East






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