Monday, January 7, 2013

Guns,Germs and Steel II

This part of the movie was about how the people in New Guinea survived. Women usually gather and the men hunted. In Papua New Guinea, it reached a point where it became colder and then hotter so the people had to travel to the Middle East to get food. There was a site in the Middle East called Drah which was the oldest village ever discovered. It was discover about 11 1/2 years ago after the drought. Many people wonder how such a bog village would survive. Archaeologists found where the people store their food. They keep it is this building away from water. The building is called a granary. The people in Papua New Guinea decided to start growing food closer to them. People brought them seeds and they panted them in their village. The process they went to is called domestication. Countries that grew also were China, the America, and Africa. In China, they grew rice. In, Africa they grew sorghum, yams, millet. And in the Americas, they grew corn, squash and beans. In New Guinea they farmed for about 10,000 years.

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