Blog Day 2

Today in class we watched a video called Guns, Germs, and Steel.  The video was about a man named Jared Diamond who visited Papua New Guinea and got to know the people who live there.  Jared Diamond is an author, a professor at UCLA, and a biologist.  In Papua New Guinea, people still live like they did 40,000 years ago.  One New Guinean man said "Why you white man have so much and New Guineans have very little."  In the movie they told us that all great civilizations have advanced technology, large population, and well organized work forces in common.  13,000 years ago no matter where you lived, everyone were hunters and gatherers.  Wild sago is a big part of the Guinean's food and diet but it is low on protein and can't be store for very long.  Two big grains they grew were barely and wheat.  Draa is one of the earliest permanent villages in the world.  One interesting thing that I learned during the video was that a granary is where the grains like wheat and barely are stored.  It is shaped like an oval and is made of mud.  This is mostly everything we learned in class today!

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