Guns, Germs, and Steel

Today we continued Guns, Germs, and Steel: 

• can shoot arrows 
• barley and wheat: better native plants
• drought: lasted 1,000 years
• Draa: first civilization ever found
• Granary: holds grains; wheat and barley
• domestication; changing the way a plant would be for people to eat
• China grew rice
• Americas grew corn, squash, and beans
• Africa grew sorghon, millet, and yams
• People have been planting in New Guinea for ten thousand years
• New Guineans eat spiders, and taro root
• had tobacco
• GEOGRAPHIC LUCK
• animal domestication
• with certain animals, you can have a lot of advantages
• Goats and sheep were the first domesticated animals
• used mostly  for their meat
• only muscle power in New Guinea is human muscle power
• ideal domesticated animals can give birth after one or two years of their life
• if they're social animals, and you can control the leader, you can control the herd
• 14 animals have been successfully domesticated:
• goats
• sheep
• pigs
• cows
• horses
• donkeys
• bactrian camels
• Arabian camels
• water buffalo
• llamas
• reindeer
• yaks
• mithum
• bali cattle
• Llamas are from South America
• The other 13 are from North Africa
• Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats are native to the Middle East