Today in Mr. Schick’s human geography class, we talked about
the show Guns, Germs, and Steel. We discussed what the movie was about. We
talked about the professor, Jared Diamond, who works at University of Los
Angeles. He also likes to watch birds. We talked about how farming first
started. Diamond believed that a country could be more developed than another
because of geographic luck. This means that where ever you lived you could have
grown wheat, corn, squash, rice, and yams. In Ugueny, their main source of food
is the sago tree. Women cut through the trees to find this and it makes plenty
of food. He also believed that if you can grow the most products you will be the
most productive farmer. Farmers started to use animal domestication. The first
domesticated animals were goats and sheep. By raising goats, they learned they
could get meat, clothes, food, and fertilizer from the animal.
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