GUNS GERMS AND STEEL DAY 3

Today we watched more of the Guns Germs and Steel documentary. In the middle east in stone age times the main source of food was wheat and barley. Draa is the oldest village in world history and its in the middle east. Places that first learned how to farm for themselves is China, The United States, Africa and New Guinea. Jerry Diamond has the opinion that places with the most productive crops have the most productive farming. Jerry Diamond also thinks that Why different places are more successful than others is because of geographic luck.

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