Today in Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class, we continued to
watch a movie based on the book written by Jared Diamond called Guns, Germs and
Steel. Jared Diamond started his expedition in New Guinea. He was left with a question
by one of the New Guineans that caught his interest. He was asked, “Why do you
white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little.” Diamond knew
it was a simple question but he could not come up with an answer at the time. Finally,
he was able to come up with a reasonable response. This was that some societies
have developed a civilization faster than others. Further into the movie, they
mentioned some agriculture. They have granaries, which is a place to store the
grain. They put the excess grain into the granaries. Up to this point this is
how people lived; they hunted and gathered.
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