monday February 2 , 2015

today in class we watched a video about jared diamond. Jared diamond wrote a book called guns, germs and steel. this video was about papa new guinea and how many of the people there act like it is still the stone age. The people do not wear alot of clothes. and do not have a lot of material goods. one man in this video walks up to jared and asks him "why do you white men have so much cargo but us new guenians have none" and that question really got jared to start thinking. the whitemen that first started visiting when they came and realized they had much more stuff then people from new guinea they instantly started feeling more superior. Diamond noticed that all great civilizations have three thngs in common advanced technology, large populations, well organizd work fare. then the video started comparing new guinea to one of the first ever civilizations called draa