On Friday and Today, Monday February 2nd we watched a video called Guns, Germs, and Steel. Here are the notes i took from Friday & Monday

• Jared Diamond - a professor who is in Papuanew Guinea 
• Papuanew Guinea - a remote island close to Australia 
• A man asked Diamond " Why do you white men have so much cargo, and we have so little?"
• Cargo - known as white mans power. Cargo is our belongings that we have 
• "white men think they're superior" 
• things both civilizations have in common 
• advanced technology 
• large populations
• organized workforce 
• Separated things into have & have nots
• Guineans are living a hunter & gather lifestyle 
• Sego is a major part of their diet
• Sego is not healthy, but it fills you up
• Sego is hard to store 
• Barley & wheat grew naturally in the mid east 
• middle east had barley & wheat 
• china had rice 
• Americas has corn squash & beans 
• Africa had millet & yams 
• most productive plants, create a most productive civilization 
• geographic luck - some places were lucky to get crops naturally & some are able to have & care for animals 
• animals gave a lot to people like milk for protein, gave fertile soil, and fur/skin for warmth