Blog Day Fifty- Four: Domestication and Guns, Germs, and Steel

Today in class we continued to watch the video Guns, Germs, and Steel. I took notes about the thing that, after research, Jared Diamond thinks makes great civilizations. That thing is geographic luck. American, European, and Asian countries have been more fortunate to have better places to get food from and animals that can help with everything. In places like Papua New Guinea, they don't have nutritious food, like wheat and barley, to eat and grow more of like people did in other places. Goat and sheep were the first every animals to be domesticated followed by bigger farm animals. These animals were more than just meat, they had hide to keep the people warm, the people got protein from the animals milk, and natural fertilizer for the plants as well from these animals. Papua New Guinea had pigs, but they can't do as many things that animals like sheep and horses can do. At the very end of class we guessed how many animals were domesticated and I guessed 17. Unfortunately, I guessed incorrectly and there are only 14 animals that humans domesticated. They include goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, bactrian camels, arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mitans, and bali cattle. I am looking forward to finishing the video next class.