Guns, Germs and steel

Today we watched the Guns, Germs and Steel video and took notes:

• In China, they grew rice
• Before people traveled easily, they got whatever crops were native to where they were born
• In the Americas, they grew corn
• Corn, squash, and beans can be stored easily and dried out
• South Africa had sorghum, millet and yams
• New Guinea had some of the earliest farmers 
• New Guinea crops couldn't be stored and were low in protein so they sometimes ate giant spiders for protein, vitamins, and minerals
• People with the most productive crops were the most productive farmers. The people with the most productive crops had geographic luck
• Humans started to domesticate and breed animals to eat and get supplies from
• Communities that domesticated animals could also use the animals to fertilize their crops
• Goats and Sheep were the first animals to be domesticated
• 168 out of 2,000,000 animals were attempted to be domesticated
• They don't domesticate reptiles, birds, fish, insects, or carnivores
• Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cows, Horses, Donkeys, Bactrian Camels, Arabian Camels, Water Buffalo, Llamas, Reindeer, Yaks, Mithan, and Bali Cattle are the only 14 useful domesticated animals
• Cows, Sheep, and Goats are native to the Middle East