Today in class we watched the final part of the movie. The last theory that Jared Diamond came up with had to do with geography and surplus. The Middle East began to prosper, creating a great surplus of crops, livestock, and overall just food. This is why The Middle East had time to make new ideas and inventions while New guinea on the other, barely had time to eat. Also, when The Middle Eastern civilization was living in the fertile crescent, they had everything they needed, but when the ecology began to get bad all they had to do was taking the stuff that they found and move it with them. New Guinea is an island, so they couldn’t just spread to a different place when things were rough. Finally, at the end of class we also talked about how that might have been only one minor part of New Guinea and other parts might be living similar to us.
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