Guns, Germs, and Steel Part 5 (Reviewing for the Test)

Today in class, we finished taking notes on guns, germs, and steel. We will have a test on Wednesday 15, 2020. It will consist of about 30 questions (multiple choice). Below are the notes that will be covered on the test and the notes that we took from the video today.

Animal Domestication:

• Eats plants
• Reproduces every 2-3 years
• provides clothing
• friendly with humans
• 14 animals per domestications

Reasons why Sago isn't the best food source:

• The sago from one tree is 70 pounds yet it can't be stored for a long period of time.
• It's not very nutritious.
• It's hard to dig up.

Jared Diamond:

• Professor at UCLA in California.
• Started as a biologist
• Real passion is birds
• Human physiologist

Plant Domestication:

• stored easily
• nutritious
• easy to plant

Fertile Crescent- surrounded by the Tigris and Euphrates river.

Civilizations thrive when they are near the equator because of the warmth.

Going back on Yali's question, Diamond said that the white people have more cargo than the natives because of geography. They live in a better place where cargo is.