- Animal Domestication - They would control their moving, breeding, and food (raising animals)
- Advantages to raising goats - they could use their fur, wool, and at first their meat
- The plow
- In New Guinean, people never used plows because they didn't have the right animals
- The only domesticated was the pig, which wasn't useful because they couldn't use their fur, milk, or muscle
- The only muscle in New Guinean, was human muscle so they never had the idea of a plow because never had horses or ox that were native to that region
- So Diamond wondered why New Guinean doesn't domesticated their animals, Diamond added all the domesticated animals
- The best animals, were the large domesticated animals
- So the Africans domesticated the elephant, which New Guinean could not handle to mange, they take a lot of labor
- Another challenge is that they need to get along with humans, some animals need their freedom and can not be tamed on a farm, like a zebra, fight or flight unlike horses
14 Domesticated animals larger than 100 pounds that could help with labor
- Pigs
- Goats
- Sheep
- Horses
- Aribian Camels
- Camels again
- Water Buffalo
- Donkeys
- Llamas
- Reindeer
- Yaks
- Mithean
- Bali Catal
- Cows
- None of these animals where available to Africa or New Guinean
- South America had one
- The others were from Asia, Europe, ...
- Some of these animals came from Middle East
- Fertile Crescent - the beginning or development of civilization, located in Western Asia/North Middle East
- The people were blessed with the crops and animals they had, it was a head start
- People lived in rows of stone house, people were amazed at the things they did, the inside had plaster made from limestone which takes days
- More people comes more help/labor
- People more able to discover more technology and more skilled
- The reason why they advanced is because they had new crops and animals
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