Sunday, January 13, 2013

Guns, Germs, and Steel Part 4


Today in Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class, we continued to watch the movie, Guns, Germs and Steel. We are onto part four of the documentary movie. In part four of the movie we learned about Domestication. Domesticated means that the people grew it themselves then they could grow more than needed to store it. There are three characteristics of civilization. First, is a Large Population. Second, is a Division of Labor. Lastly, are Technological Advancements. In China, they grow rice. In the United  States we grow corn. In Africa, they grow yams, millet, and sorghum. Earlier in the movie, Jared Diamond was faced with a question from a native Papua New Guinean that at the time he could not come up with an answer; however, he finally came to conclusions that some people and countries are just simply have Geological Luck, which means some people are just lucky enough to be born in a place for farming. 

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