Tuesdsay - Class Notes

Guns, Germs, and Steel

-In China, they grew rice
-In America, they grew corn, squash, and beansNew Guinea - oldest farming place in the world
-New Guinea crops - low in protein, cannot be stord
-New Guinea - sometimes eat spiders to get nutrition
-In Africa, they grew Sorghum, Millet, and Yam
-If you had the most productive crop, you were the most productive farmer
-Americans have advantage over New Guinea - better crops
-9,000 years ago - villages in the Middle East transforming
-9,000 years ago - charder to kill animals
-9,000 years ago - people started to raise their own animals - domesticating them
-Animals are used for meat, milk, clothes, and tools
-Goats and sheep - first to be domesticated
-Animals used to pull plows
-New Guinea had pigs
-New Guinea - almost all work done by humans
-Animal must weigh 100 pounds or more to be domesticated
-Must get along with humans to be domesticated
-14 animals that have been useful to people that have been domesticated
-14 animals:

• goats
• sheep
• pigs
• cows
• horses
• donkeys
• bactrian camels
• arabian camels
• water buffalo
• llamas
• reindeer
• Yak
• mithan
• bali cattle

-Took 10,000 years to domesticate animals
llamas
-13 other animals come from Asia, Europe, and North Africa
-Fer- home to the best crops and farm animalstile Crescent