Today in class, we watched a little more of the video on Jared Diamond. We also took key notes on the video as well. An important food in Papua New Guinea Sago, which is found in trees. Sago takes three or four days to process, and it also cannot be stored for a long time. Barley and wheat occur naturally in the Middle East. Ian Kuijits is a Canadian biologist, that discovered Draa, which is a place located in the Middle East as well. Draa was one of the first and oldest examples of people living together in a community or village, with forty or fifty people living together. A granary is a place that stores grain. Plant domestication took years to unfold. China is one of the greatest civilizations of all time, their advance in civilization is rice. The Americas' advance in civilization was corn, squash, and beans. Africa's civilizational advance was sour gum, millet, and yams. "Geographic luck" is when some regions were just more geographically lucky than other regions. That is all the notes that I recorded in class, the most the class did was watch and discuss the movie. The class also discussed blogs and how to set them up, if you haven't already.
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