Today in class we had watched part of a video on a book called "Guns, Germs, and Steel." This book was written by a man named Jared Diamond a writer, biologist, and teacher at UCLA who has a fondness of bird watching. He poses an interesting topic about why humans developed separately. He uses examples from the Middle East such as the food resources available to them. He compares the nomads of the Middle East to the nomads of Papua New Guinea and tries to find why they developed so differently. We had ended our video on a civilization older than that of Mesopotamia known as Draa. The archaeologists there had determined that they formed after the thawing of the Earth and had learned to grow their own crops. They had found a granary in the village and decided that that was how they stayed alive during the refreezing of the Earth.
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