Guns, Germs, and Steel Video #2

Today during class, we are able to get through 20 mins of the video that we left off last time. Notes on the video:

Crops grown:

Middle East: Barely and wheat

Drah: It was the first actual settlement by humans ( known )

Domestication: Humans changing the way of nature

Once the Middle East started growing barely, next China grew rice, then North America grew barely, corn, squash, and beans, lastly, Africa grew Millets, sorghum, and yams.

GEOGRAPHIC LUCK: living in a place with grains that you can store

Animal Domestication: Humans controlling animals.

Goats and she eps were the first animals to be domesticated.

Around the earth lots of places used animal power in order to get the things they needed around but in Newginni, they only had human strength and pigs. They didn't have a lot of other animals in their place.

Ideal Animals: Animals that give birth at 1 or 2 years

If social animals are together and humans control the leader of the herb of animals, humans will be able to control all the animals in that herd.

14 animals that weigh over 100 pounds that are domesticable are:

Goat, sheep, pig, cow, horses, donkey, bactrian camels, arabian camels, water buffalo, llama, reindeer, yak, mithan, balli cattle. These are located in North Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America. Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats are form the middle east.