Thursday, October 15, 2009

notes from 9/30/09-10/1/09

what seperates the haves from the have nots:
we live in a great time but yet still people are starving and dying from diseases.

papua new guinea
^^^^
jared diamond-
bird expert
human physiologist (UCLA)
professor
writer

usa- the richest and most powerful country on earth

13,000 years ago the middle east was far lest arid then it was today
nomads=hunter/gatherers

to catch an animal you have to be smart and sneaky, it requires skills
an important source of food is wild sego tree- stuff gathered out of the tree

catastrophic change- the weather changed, which means that they couldn't grow as much crops as the ydid before. the drought lasted about 1,000 years

Middle-Easterners lived a in shelter for weeks or months at a time- You can never find enough food while hunting- Hunting is so unreliable

it was possible to feed a whole village during those hard times.
the place was were grain could be stored-granery
people started to grow their own food

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