geographic luck

Today in class we watched more of the video. Before that though we took a survey on Mr.Shick's teaching and learned about the upcoming Pow Wow event. The Pow Wow goes from 10am to 7pm and consists of different vendors and Native American traditions. In the video today we learned that farming developed in the Middle East first with wheat and barley, then China with rice, the Americas with corn,squash,and beans, and Africa with millet, sorghum, and yams. New Guineans have also been farming for over 10,000 years but they can only grow crops that are not nutritious and low on protein, which gives the people protein deficiency and it also takes a long time and lots of work to plant these crops. Every great civilization has started by growing their farming industry, but then why is New Guinea the same? Diamond thinks it's because of Geographical luck which means some people got great crops and animals to domesticate, while other countries did not. 9,000 years ago the Middle East and other countries started to use animal domestication to get a permanent supply of meat, but they discovered you can also get things like milk, fur, skins, work power, and more. Plan ts and animals also work together because the plants give animals food, and the animals fertilize the soil. Goats and sheep were the first animals domesticated. New Guinea also lost the Geographic Lottery by not having any animals like this that can be domesticated. 14 animals have been domesticated by humans so far: Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cows, Horses, Donkeys, Bactrian camels, Arabian camels, Water buffalo, Llamas, reindeer, Yaks, Mithams, and Bali cattle. TBC