test for GGG prep/ study guide blog

domesticating animals/ plant- pushed from hunters/gathers to  advance society and live in the same place

surplus of food- (store, grow, domesticating animals/plants) stable/permanent residence, people have time to do things they are good at (build weapons/armor/better shelters/ect.)
author- Jared diamond


  • professor at USLA college
  • started as biologist 
  • passion- studying birds began at 7 
  • came to New Guinea (setting of movie)
  • know is leading expert on bird life 

they lived in New Guinea 40000 yrs more then people in continents but much poorer 

Yali- asked question to diamond that lead to this book and movie and investigation of global inequality 
why you white men have so much cargo, but we New Guineans have so little

New Guineans- cargo - stuff that you have
materials goods brought by Europeans/ Americans 
symbol white men's power 
colonist believed power was determined by race, saw themselves as genetically superior 
doesn't take long for colonist to oppress them/be in charge

great civilizations- Greece (Colosseum) Egypt (pyramids), Rome

all great civilizations have 3 things in common: advanced tec., large pop., well organized work force

pre-history (before things wee written) 13000 yrs ago 
middle east - 1st place to become civilized,

Papa New Guinea, Amazon Rain forest deep in forests - still hunters and gathers

they are in stone age, prehistory, pre stage 1 of development

hunting- prob.- cant find enough food, takes time to track the animals, no certainty, and cant sore the food

gathering- by women, more relied upon, mostly gathered SAGO- 70 ibs, and cant be stored, little protein, takes long time to prepair

middel east barely and wheat

IAN KITE ARCHEOLOGIST- discovered oldest known settlement  (called Draa)
small village prob earliest permanent settlement in the world w/ 40-50 people ( H and G group had 4-15) 11500 settlement was made

1st granary in the world - protect grain from dry humidity, moisture, bugs, water, and kept fresh and could store food yr. round

Domesticating plants (nature changed by human interference)

area where farming didn't help advance society - Highland New Guinea bc. didn't have nutrition/calorie dense food (banana, sago, terro root)  low in protein, harder to plant, cant store for months/yrs.,

china-rice
middle east-barley wheat
America-corn squash beans
Africa-sorghum yams millet

GEOGRAPHIC LUCK

new steady food source 9000 yrs. ago DOMESTICATING ANIMALS

humans- breeding, feeding, movement- dependable food source- milk/protein , cloths/warmth, animal dung/ fertile 

goats and sheep 1st animals to be domesticated

New Guinean- only had pigs w/out muscle no hide or milk

best domesticated animals
large herbivores
elephants cant be raised bc. takes 15 yrs. to reproduce no steady supply cant raise enough of food to feed them
ideal animal reproduce within 1-2 yrs. , social animals/ social hierarchy w/ leader that controls pack, get along w/ humans, 100 Ibs+

14 farmed animals successfully domesticated that are 100 ibs +
goats, pigs, cows, sheep, horses, bacterian camel, Arabian camel, donkey, llama, water buffalo, reindeer, yaks, mithans, bail cattle

Middle east - best livestock/ plants (fertile crescent between Tigris and the Euphrates rivers)  

people had time to develop houses, plaster to keep out water, window- air condition, standing for 9000 yrs. 



















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