western civ

guns, germs, and steel video notes part 3:

• animal domesication
• goats and sheep were the first animals in the domesticated world
• new guineas didn't have the animals needed to plow (geographic luck)
• only muscle power in New Guinea was man
• 14 animals
• goats
• sheeps
• pigs
• caves
• horses
• donkeys
• bactrian camels
• arabian camels
• water buffolo
• llamas
• reindeer
• yaks
• mithans
• bali cattle
• none of these came from New Guinea, Africa, North America, or Austrailia
• one from south america, llama
• other 13 from europe, asia, and northern africa
• sheep, goats, pigs, and cows are native to the middle east
• productive systems you don't have to worry about what everyone is going to eat