GG&S - Homework 3

   Today we continued watching GG&S. Diamond talked about dmesticated animals and how they changed civilization over time. Animal domestication is when they would control their moving, breeding, and food which included raising animals, such as goats. Some advantages to raising goats include using their fur, wool, and meat. Another big discussion in the movie, was how the plow changed civilization. People in New Guinean never used plows because they didn't have the right domesticated animals. The only domesticated animal they had was the pig, which wasn't very useful because they couldn't use use it to help them with labor or use their fur and milk. Pigs barely have any muscle. The only muscle in New Guinean, has human muscle. So they never got the idea of using animals to plow because  horses and ox were not available/native to that region. So Diamond wondered why New Guinean didn't domesticate their own animals, he added all the domesticated animals in the world. He find about 143 but only 14 of them could be used for help in labor work. Those 14 animals are pigs, goats, sheep, horses, two types of camels, the water buffalo, donkeys, llama, reindeer, yaks, mithean, catal, and cows. Surprisingly, none of these animals were available to Africa or new Guinean. Most of these animals came from the Middle East. People from the Fertile Crescent were blessed with the crops and animals they had, it was a head start of civilization. The reason why they advanced in civilization is because they had new crops and animals.