GG&S - Homework

      Today in class we continued watching Guns, Germs, & Steel. Jared Diamond had to turn the clock before civilization to understand the history of New Guinea's cargo. The people in the Middle East were always on the move, they were building shelters everywhere they went, then they would move on looking for food. Diamond observed how they would hunt to find food. Gathering is another way of hunting and is usually done by women. An important food the women would gather, is the Sago trees. They would eat the berries and bark of the Sago trees. They took a lot of labor and work to produce and they wouldn't last long, so you would have to eat them right away. Sago trees also do not have a lot of protein and fiber that are important for your diet. In fact, New Guineans lack in protein, so they would eat giant spiders.. After the ice age years, many trees, plants, and animals died. So someone said there must be another way to hunt food, like to grow/plant foods. Bradley and wheat were grasses that had a huge impact on civilization. The people discovered they could not only bring harvested foods back, but they could plant them with seeds. They planted domesticated plants. Grain was an important food they planted. Grains were not available to New Guinean, unlike the Middle East. But they need somewhere to keep this grain to protect it from animals. Ian K. is an acrticogolist (sp?) who studies the Middle East stone age years. They found, Draa', the worlds first village. He discovered a deep hole under the village where they would store the grains, called graineries. Villages were a huge impacted on the people's life styles. Everyone was living and working together in a village instead of moving around following their food.

GG&S - Notes Day 2

Today in class we got assigned seats and continued watching Gums, Germs, & Steel. Tonight we have to write another paragraph on what we saw in class. These are some of my notes:

• Diamond had to turn the clock before civilization to answer the mans question
• People in the Middle East were always on the move, they were building shelters everywhere they went, then they would move on looking for food 
• Diamond observed how they would hunt to find food, hunt animals
• Hunting Gathering - always on the move, following animals
• Gathering is usually done by women and is another way of hunting
• Sheo trees, an important food, have nutritions and foods like berries and bark of trees
• Sheo trees takes a lot of labor and work to produce and they don't last long, take store
• They don't have alot of protein and fiber that are important for you, isn't nutrition
• Grains were not available to that area, unlike the Middle East
• Braldley and wheat were grasses that have a huge impact on civilization 
• Then ice age years returned, many trees and plants died
• So someone said that there has to be another way to hunt food, like grow foods
• But then they need some thing to keep grain, their food they grew, to protect it from animals in a grainery
• People were forced to move farther and find food, and they would survive
• Ian K. (person)- studies the Middle East stone age years, he works with a team of articigists
• They discovered a village from 11.5 thousand years ago, Draa', worlds first village 
• They discovered a holes of tall stones were they could store grain from insects 
• So everyone was living and working together in a village instead of moving all the time
• They could not only bring food back, harvested but as seeds
• These farmers were changes the nature around them
• Domestication - a process in which farmers ...
• After the Middle East came China
• China had rice, squash, and beans
• New Guinea is the most densely population city on the island, they used tecquices used in the Middle East
• There foods are low in protein and must be eaten quickly or they could root, unlike our foods
• New Guineans lack protein so they would eat giant spiders 
• Could plants have the course to change human livings or was there something else? 
• They were surrounded by domesticated wheat and braley  
• The only way they could live on this scale is to become more productive farmers

Guns, Germs, & Steel - Homework

    Guns, Germs, and Steel, is a movie we stared watching in class written by Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond is an American scientist. He is a biology and physiologist professor at UCLA. Jared likes the study of earth and birds. He went to Papua New Guinea, an island above Australia, to learn more about birds. He learned many things from the New Guineans. He saw how the New Guineans could build shelter in a couple hours using whatever they could find in nature. This made him think why they don’t have the same technology and resources America has to build houses. A man came up to him 30 years ago and said, “Why do you white men have so much cargo, and we New Guineans don’t?”  He said he didn’t know how to answer. I think Papua, New Guinea doesn’t have as much cargo as America does because they are not a culturally diverse county as we are. They are not as open to the world as America is, and many people don’t know about them. 

Guns, Germs, & Steel - Notes

Notes:

• Guns, Germs, & Steel separates the have, a place with all the techonogly (US), and have-nots, places with out new tech. (Africa) 
• Papuanewguinea, a place, most modern and diverence people in the world
• Jared Diamond - prof. at UCLA biogicist and the study of earth and birds - likes bird watching 
• Yewyo, a guy said to Jared 30 years ago, "Why do you white men have so much cargo, and we New Guineans don't?"
• They use the word "cargo" as the things Americans brought over, like a religions use
• Explained cargo using race
• They know how to build shelter in a couple hours, so why don't they build buildings and constructions