Today we had finished the movie Guns, Germs and Steel. At the end of the movie they had talked about the invention of metal tools and how the people in the middle east heated lime stone and made plaster of the inside of their houses. The people in the middle east when the over farmed the land they were smart enough to stay along the same longitude line so that they would could raise the same animals and grow the same crops. At that time they didn't know that if you stay on a longitude line then you can grow the same crops and it will have the same climate. Then at the end Diamond could answer the mans question about how Americans have so much cargo and New Guineans have so little the answer was that the people of New Guinea were dealt a hand that fit their environment.
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