Today 2/2/15

Today we watched the video called Guns, Germs, and Steel. There is a book of the same name written by a scientist named Jared Diamond. They begin in Papua New Guinea. People live like it is the Stone Age. One man, when Jared came to the island a couple of years ago, asked him why white men have so much cargo and we do not. That got Jared thinking. He thought that if lived like they did we would not survive and if they came to like New York City, they would not survive. Power was determined by race, white people have more power than black people. All great civilization have three things in common: advanced technology, large population, and a well-organized work force. In the New Stone Age and Middle East, humans were thriving. In Papua New Guinea people are still hunting and gathering. Wild sago is a main source of food to the New Guineans. In the New Stone Age, barley and wheat are found and then eaten. A village named Draa is found in the Middle East. There they found a grainery. The town is 11,500 years old. The plants in the grainery were wheat and barley. This proved that people have started to domesticate.