Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Guns, Germs, and Steel #3

Notes:

- Newgerrians didn't technologically because they were stuck having to find food for them to survive.
- Fertile crescent: People started moving out because the people there over exploited the land, tapped out the land, cut down all the trees, cut the grasses, ext.
- The lands with the same latitude as the fertile crescent share similar geography. To the west and the east of the fertile crescent, the lands were similar.
- 20 million tons of wheat a year are grown in the Americas. Wheat is not a native plant to the Americas but it is grown very well in the Americas.

Question: Why do white men have so much cargos? And we Newgerrains don't have a lot?
Answer: If Newgerrians experienced good geography, they would have advanced tremendously and want more. But because they don't have good geography, they were not able to advance.

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