Guns Germs and Steel Day 3

Today in class, we watched more of the video about Guns, Germs and Steel. Some of the notes I took are:
- in the Middle East, growing wild is wheat and barley

- Draa is believed to be the oldest community/ society ever

- a granary is where wheat/barley is dried out

- plant domestication is farming/ manipulating plants for food

Places that learned to farm early:
1. China - rice
2. the Americas - corn, squash, and beans
3. Africa - sorghum, millet, and yams

- civilization followed learning to farm

- New Guineans sometimes eat giant spiders to get protein

- people who had the most productive crops had the most productive farm

- geographic luck is being lucky enough to live somewhere with good crops

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