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Today in Western Civilization, we finished the movie we have been watching. Here are the notes that I wrote down from today.

• These people invented plaster
• Plaster made the house smooth inside
• Created a new job for the people 
• Stone had to be heated for days at over 1,000 degrees
• New Guinea never technologically developed
• Spent too much time feeding themselves
• Fertile Crescent is no longer the power house
• Most villages were abandoned
• Too dry for farming
• Entire communities were forced to move on
• Animals moved from the Fertile Crescent
• Once they reached Egypt, they caused an explosion of civilization
• Suddenly - enough food for everyone
• Same is true for European civilizations
• 16th century - crops and animals taken to America from Europe
• Diamond was criticized
• Divisions of the world are not set in stone
• Some New Guineans try to catch up to the rest of the world but they still have a long way to go
• Geography is the answer to the New Guinean's question
• All of their time was spent making sure there was enough food for their people
• Used to farm as much as possible and then moved on to a new location