Today we continued watching guns germs and steel. We got a better idea of why some civilizations advance faster than others. To discover why some civilizations advance and others dont he went back in time( in research) to find out. He found out that after the ice age a long time ago hunters and gatherers were everywhere. They would hunt and gather food in one place and once all that food was gone they would move on to another area. This didnt let the people learn new things or invent new things there whole life was put to finding food. In the Middle East, people were going through a drought and they had a low supply of food. This meant they couldnt travel a lot and they had to stay near a water source. This forced the people to start farming food and storing it for later. They plant the food cut it down themselves to eat. This distubed the natural pattern of the food and they domesticated the food. They then stored the food in graneries and could store it for later. This let these civilizations move forward because they could do other things than hunt and gather all the time. They could develop weapons, weave, and make new things. Hunters and gatherers fell behind. Now Papa New Guinea still farms but their food isnt very effiecient because its harder to plant, grow, and process than the wheat and barley in the Middle East. Also their plants like sago aren't nutritious enough and don't have a lot of protein in them. This is why Papa new Guinea fell behind.
We we continue the movie tommorow.
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