Even More Notes on Guns Germs and Steel

In continuing the notes on Guns Germs and Steel, Jerrod Diamond continued talking about domesticating animals. People got the domesticated animals came from Asia and the Middle East. People in New Guinea could not have a surplus. No domesticated animals were native of New Guinea. There is an area in the middle east called the fertile crescent which was used a few thousand years ago to help out early civilizations. People in the fertile crescent was able to build very good homes that you could live in and people even had some primitive air conditioning. Sine the villages started getting bigger people could do more things and do more different jobs and which left people with opportunities to discover new technology. Places like new Guinea have never developed advanced technology. People there were still using stone tools in the 1960's. Because the food surplus was not well people couldn't make steel and people used too much time and money to feed themselves. Yet for all of its advantages the fertile crescent is not good for the modern world. Most of the villages in the fertile crescent the villages were abandoned. The people who lived there used up all the crops the environment had given them. They ran out of water and they were forced to move villages at a time. When them moved they moved to the east and west of the fertile crescent. Crops and animals that thrived around the fertile crescent were able to survive in the same latitudes. Once the animals reached Egypt the population exploded. The same thing happen in the European civilizations. In the 1600 the same crops and animals were taken to the new worlds. There was never wheat or cows in the New Americas before the Europeans brought them over. Diamond said that his years in new Guinea had their own types of smarts and they have learned to live in their environment in order for them to survive. The only types of agriculture that was taken to New Guinea were pigs. The towns in New Guinea are trying to developed with the rest of the world. The answer to the question he was asked was that their people would have developed better if their geography was the same as the Europeans and Asians.