Today in Human Geo we watched a video called Guns, Germs,
and Steel. It’s about a man named Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA. Fun
fact he has an obsession with all types of birds. Kind of weird if you ask me.
He travels to Popua New Guinea which is an island nation located between Asia
and Australia. Mr. Schick said that it was like a paradise for bird lovers because
none of the man made things have been built yet so many exotic birds live
there. One man from the island ask Jared why white man had so much more cargo
than people from his homeland. Cargo is all the stuff you own. We also learned
that all great civilization have large population, advanced technology, and
well organized work forces. The people who live in New Guinea have a source of food
from the sago trees. Which contains a lot of food but it goes bad quickly and it’s
a lot of work to harvest them. More notes on the video to come!
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