Papua New Guinea

Population - 6,064,515 (July 2010 est.) 
Religion - Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3% (2000 census)
Military - 16 years of age for voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription (2010)

Guns, Germs, and Steel (continued)

The large four animals and the best growing crops was in the middle east and was called the fertile crest. This was leading towards the first civilization. Some of the houses had some of a air conditioning. Some people created new skill and new technology from farming like making plaster. Learning how to make fire was a major part of creating technology. You use fire to bend steal and you can make weapons and tools, new technology. The people in Newguinea couldn't make new tools and technology because they spent all their time feeding themselves. The fertile crest changed, the climate was dry and it couldn't support all the farming and people. Entire communities had to move just because there was no arable land, but once again geography was on their side. Right next to the middle east there was many places that also had great crops and animals, they werent isolated. Wherever wheat and barley spread they helped form a civilization. When wheat hit Egypt and Europe it  help them out a lot and helped during the renaissance. European took the domesticated animals to the United States where non were. That pretty much raps up the movie! Guns, Germs, and Steel thats it.

Student Appreciation Day!

Today in class we watch Guns, Germs, and Steel again and finally found out the 14 domesticated animals that have been used as farm animals for the last 10,000 or so years. We also got cookies for National Student Appreciation Day!

Guns, Germs, and Steel (continued)

Farming spread all over the world with different food, although farming spread over the large countries that are more advanced. Ineguality all comes down to growing better food. Animal domesticating where humans were controlling where animals moved and breaded. Animals could be used for their milk along with their meat, their fur could be used for clothing as well. Animals would eat the left overs after the harvest and the dung from the animals can fertilize the farms. All animals were used for their meat but then people found other uses for animals. Horses and oxen were used to plow farms but could also be used for many other things. Farmers could grow more food with animals because its can harvest food a lot faster. Newguinea only had pigs which were way less then horse or ox. The best animals to farm is a large plant eating mammal because it doesn't need meat and you can use its power. Asia, Europe and the Middle East is where 13 of the 14 domesticated animals are. Africans couldn't domesticate the elephant but the Asians could used as work animals but they couldn't farm. They could domesticate an elephant because it takes 15 years to mature and reproduce. Animals need to get along with humans to be domesticated, a zebra could be used like a horse but it is hunted by other animals and also have a problem with humans. The 14 domesticated animals are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, two kinds of camels, water buffalo, llamas, rain deer, mithans, yackes, bali cattle. People in the fertile crest had great animals and farming plants and Papua Newguinea has 0 domesticated animals living there.

Guns, Germs, and Steel (continued)

Diamond was looking to find a time before inequality, it was 13,000 years ago when people lived in small groups of hunter gatherers and moved a lot. They lived in small homes months at a time but then moving with the animals. You have to be very smart to be a hunter and the Papua Newgiunea were very smart although hunting is a very inconsistent way of finding food. People reli more on gathering which is done more by women, Sago is more productive but less sustaining. Barley and wheat are far more sustaining but there needs to be a change in climate for there to be enough. At this time the world became colder and drier and the middle east many things died and a drought lasted over 1000 years. People would survive and prosper, and change. Ian Kuijt is an Archaeologists in Drra' and they found a sight around the time of the change in the earth and it shows how they survived. The team at Drra' believes the sight would be able to store wheat and barley which was able to be stored for years at a time. People started growing their own food in the drought and would stay near a source of water and plant near their home and bring seeds and plants back to their homes and becoming farmers. The farmers without knowing it were changing the plant around them taking the largest, tastiest, and easiest to plant to grow. People were starting to control nature, domesticating their plants. People who hunted and gathered couldn't get or store as much as farmers. After the middle east China started growing rice and the U.S. started corn and beans. Farming start in Newgiunea almost 10,000 years ago but didn't change like China or the United States, they had just as good of farmers. They didn't have the right plants or geographical luck to keep everybody fed. People in the islands have such low protein that they eat large spiders to  sustain their diet. Geographic luck is a main part of it.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

The movie Guns, Germs, and Steel is about hundreds of Conquistadors came in and killed Native Americans with guns, germs, and steel. Jared Diamond a professor at UCLA tries to figure out how this shaped the history of the United States. His journey started in Papua Newguinea, hes real passion is studying birds and is a professor in Los Angeles. Over the years hes gotten to know the Newguineans and learns their languages and also studies birds together. Cargo is said for the meaning of goods once brought for the western white man. The Newguineans can go out into the wilderness with nothing, make a shelter within a few hours and survive. They cant log onto computers but that does not mean they aren't as smart as us.