Guns Germs and Steel Part 4

 Out of the animals that are domesticated only llamas come from South America.  The rest come from Asia, Africa, and Europe.  The Middle East was home, not only to the best crops but them also best animals.  Since the people in Middle East stored stuff they had a surplus of food they could use that would last for a while.  People in the Middle East had specialized labors.  This meant they learned how to do other work other than hunting, gathering farming.   People become weaves, weapon makers, bronze makers, and tin or metals.  This helped move along the process of development. Some people made plaster from stones, they had to be heated for days at a time and heated over 100 degrees; these were the first steps to making steel. Places like New Guinea never developed advanced ways of doing things.  People were still using stone tools.  It’s not bad; it’s just that they were “stuck in time”.  Then the Europeans came over and they were easily conquered. They didn’t have any way to fight back.  On the other hand they were not getting cancer, heart attacks, stress related, no preservatives in food, and they are living the way there ancestors had.  Not like a lot of other societies. Fertile Crescent is in the middle of Eurasia, many of the farmers could move because the places on the same line of latitude share the same time of day and that would be helpful for farming.  Wherever they went they transformed societies all over the world.  Americans consumed 20 million bales of wheat a year.  Modern America would not be possible without the spread of the Fertile Crescent.  People in New Guinea could progress the same way America could but they just didn’t have the right material.  There was still a big gap to overcome but the towns in New Guinea were trying to develop.  It’s not that the people in New Guinea weren't smart enough or able to develop; it’s just that they did not at all have geographic luck.