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