Blog Day Fifty- Three: Dogs and Guns, Germs, and Steel

Today in class we watched the video about Guns, Germs, and Steel. At the beginning of class we had a visit from someone very special, a dog! It was quite nice to have had a dog in the classroom at the start of the day. The dog even showed us trick and fetched a ball when Mr. Schick threw it. Once we started the video I started taking notes. A few notes I took were the three things that Jared Diamond thinks make a great civilizations; advanced technology, large population, and well organized workforce. I do agree that these things make up a great civilizations because they all are the things that advanced civilizations now have. I also learned that in Papua New Guinea people still are hunter-gatherers. Wild sago is something that the gatherer gather. It is a good source of food in Papua New Guinea since is does produce about 70 pounds of something edible from the tree. The downside is that it takes at least three days to produce that food from the tree, it has no protein or vitamins, and it will go bad after few days, so you have to eat it quickly. I am excited to learn more from the video next class.