GG&S Notes 2

Today in class we got new seats.  We also watched Guns, Germs, and Steel.

• he had to turn back the clock to before the first civilization- 13,000 years ago
• all people lived like this and were always on the move and were hunter gatherers
• gathering is done by women
• sago trees have sago and can be turned into a dough and cooked for food
• each tree has about 70 ibs
• middle east has barley and wheat which are  better for you
• Ice age conditions returned and everything died off 
• the drought lasted for more than 1000 years and they had to look farther and longer for food
• a new type of life would come into being
• the village converged 11,000 years ago when they drought happened 
• they took 4 years to dig out the village
• they had a dry humidity free environment for grain
• it was the first granary 
• it was an oval hut that they stored their food which was how they survived through the drought
• one of the most significant things that got us to civilization
• everyone got their own jobs
• people started growing their own food and started growing wheat and barley around them so they dont have to go to other places
• people start to control nature
• domestication is the way people affect plant production
• people farmed rice, beans, yams, etc
• people in new Guinea  had been farming there for 10,000 years
• not much  in any of their food
• Americans had an advantage because we had more nutritious crops

Best Week Ever!

No school again!! Only a 2 day week...thank God!! I got to sleep in again.

No School AGAIN!!

No school again! I hope we don't have school tomorrow because that would be stupid to go back for one day!

No School!

Today we had off.  It's great to sleep in!

GG&S Paragraph

       Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA.  In his mean time he likes to bird watch in Papua New Guinea, which set him off on his journey.  A man 30 years ago asked him why white men had so much cargo and why Papua New Guineans had so little.  This question made him think.  Why did we have so much more?  The Papua New Guineans have been there for 40,000 years and we have only been here for 500.  How do we have so much more technology when these quick thinking people have been where they are for so much longer.  The Papua New Guineans thought that power was determined by race.  They thought that that was the way things were suppose to be.  Guns, Germs, and Steel is an important aspect in the whole situation.

GG&S Notes

• separate the haves from the have nots-people who have modern technology and who don't
• Ep 1
• Jared Diamond is in Papuanewguinea 
• He studies birds
• biology
• Why are they so much more poor
• Someone asked him 30 yrs ago why he had so much cargo and they have so little which set him off on his journey
• how did we progress so far when they have been living in the same place for 10,000 years
• power was determined by race-so they thought is only right for it to be that way