- Jarod Diamond - Biologist
- Studies birds in Papua New Guinea
- A man Jarod met asked him, "Why you white men have so much cargo (belongings), and we New Guineans have so little?"
- White men thought they were superior to these people
- New Guineans were thought to be less superior because their race
- Jarod disagrees with that theory!
- Civilizations that prospered and were successful had 3 things in common:
- Advanced Technology
- Large Populations - opportunities
- Well organized work force - made way for different jobs
- Where did inequality come from?
- find a time/place when inequality didn't exist
- Middle East
- 13,000 years ago far less arid
- people were always moving
In Papua New Guinea, there are still people living in the Rainforest like people did 40,000 years ago.
- Women do the gathering
- gathering is generally more productive than hunting
- Sego trees are a major part of what they eat
- Eat the part in the tree after the tree is cut down
- Not very healthy
- Sego doesn't store well
- Barley and Wheat grass - far more healthy than sego
- Grow naturally
- Middle East drought lasted over 1,000 years
- Ian Kite
- Place of site: Draa
- Believed to be a small village with 40-50 people
- First time people settled down
- 11,500 years ago, the villages started up
- They found a granary that was used to keep food stored
- First farmers in the Stone Age in the Middle East
- Domestication - crops are changed and controlled by humans
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