Inequality in the development of civilizations has long been a mystery. That is‚ until the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel came out in 1997. This book revealed how geography determined that Europe was fortunate in agriculture‚ domesticated animals‚ germs and Papua New Guinea and Inca were not. Climate is determined by the latitude and longitude of a location. The latitude and longitude of Papua New Guinea causes it to have a hot tropical climate year-round and one of the only things they can grow is
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Chapter nine of Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies describes how many of the animals domesticated had certain qualities that made it possible for them to be domesticated. The chapter also goes into why Eurasia became more advanced than the rest of the world. Diamond explains that all of this is possible based on the Anna Karenina principle. The Anna Karenina principle is “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This means
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different resources that were present at the specific area they were located. According to the theory‚ the Fertile Crescent‚ in the Middle East‚ had the perfect crops and the most useful animals that could be used for domestication. A lot of the evolution of people was based on the domestication of plants. When groups/tribes of people didn’t go hunting or gathering but instead‚ stayed at one place‚ by a water source‚ they could obtain all the stronger strains of wheat and barley for growing. That is when
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11‚000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that
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Economics 515 Midterm 1 1. Economic growth vs. economic development‚ define extensive growth & intensive growth Economic growth is the sustained increase in the output of goods/services of a society. Economic development is economic growth plus changes in technical and institutional arrangements by with output are produced. Extensive growth- increase in output due to increase in inputs (labor force grows‚ land stock increases) Intensive growth- increase in output per unit of input –
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PASTORALISM Intro This lecture provides an overview of pastoralism‚ covering following topics: 1. Definition: What exactly is pastoralism? 2. Origins: When & why did it arise? 3. Environmental/geographical distribution: Where does it occur? 4. Subsistence strategies: How does it work? 5. Social organization: What are its social correlates? Definition Various definitions & classifications‚ but simplest are these: 1) Pastoralism = subsistence system based primarily on domesticated
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Anth 68 Day 8 From Wild Animals to Domestic Pets‚ An Evolutionary View of Domestication Domestication was allowed to happen mainly because animals gained a tolerance of human and human-contact. Hunter-gatherers first became docile‚ and started to domesticate plants and animals and developed agriculture. Domestication of today’s barnyard animals occurred as a result of these hunter-gatherers wanting to stabilize their food resources. Barnyard animals descend from herd- living herbivores whose ancestors
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also when farming began to take place; people began to use farming in order to get food. Pottery could have been used for many upon many reason such as grinding grains or serving food. All of these are still being used today. In this time the domestication of animals began. Although the early humans like nomads were constantly on the move‚ this became of use to them for things like carrying things‚ fur‚ or even meat to eat. Hunter gatherers didn’t come to really use this idea because they usually
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on the climate of the region and the needs of the people. Question 4: What cultural achievements characterized life in the Neolithic period? Answer 4: Life during the Neolithic period was characterized by agricultural dominance and animal domestication. Civilizations emerged and communities developed.
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consequences of the Neolithic revolution on social structures. When talking about the Neolithic Revolution‚ we are referring to the time when food production‚ plant cultivation and animal domestication were developed (circa 11‚550 BP). It indicates the first cultural period in a region in which the first signs of domestication are present.[1] This can also be described as the shift from hunting and gathering societies to agricultural and pastoral societies. The change in society had many social ramifications
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