February 3

We continued watching the video. There are some more notes: Sago trees where used by New Guineans for food. They wood chop down the tree and it would take 3-4 days to process into dough that was not very nutrias and didn't have a lot of protein. A tree would produce 70 pounds, but the it could not be stored for very long. They also eat roots from a plant, bananas, and spiders. This caused the New Guineans to continue on having the hunter/gather lifestyle. Each day they would spend looking for food. They didn't have a food source that could be stored for long periods of time like barley, wheat, and rice.  These grains very more nutrias then sago. Draa is the oldest permeant civilization founded. In Draa, the first granaries were used to store wheat. They were the First farmers in the world. They planted the barley and wheat close to their village which was near a water source. After harvesting, they would replant the biggest, strongest, healthiest seeds. This is called plant cultivation or domestication.

China- Rice
Middle East- wheat and barely
Americas- corn, squash, and beans
Africa - sorghum, millet, yams
Papua New Guinea- roots and bananas

Geography Luck: 
-If you had nutrias grains that can be stored, you would thrive.
-Climate
- Location (could trade)
-Animals

Wealth of America would no the same if we lived off of bananas, spiders, and sago.  New Guineans were at a disadvantage in location, farming, and animals.  They could were on a remote island, no easily stored grain, and only had pigs for domestication.

 Domestication  
-animals were used for: farming, meat, milk, and clothes (reliable source of food year round)
-goats and sheep were the first animals to be domesticated
- out of 2 million species of animals , 14 species (that way over 100 pounds) are domesticated

1. goats
2. sheep
3. pigs
4. cows
5. horses
6. donkeys
7. bakterm camels
8. Arabian camels 
9. water buffalo
10.  llamas
11. reindeer
12. yacks
13. mittens 
14. vali cattle

South America: llamas; Asia, Africa, Europe: other 13; Middle East: native cows, pigs, sheep, and goats

Carnivores animals were harder to domesticate.

Ideal animals- mature and reproduce at the age 1 or 2  

For social animals (heads), they controlled the Alpha leader then have control over whole heard