Papua African Environment

One advantage the Fertile Crescent had in food production was that it had a Mediterranean climate that was mild and wet in the winter and hot and dry in the long summers. This allows plants to grow quickly after the dry season when the rain comes back. A second advantage was many plants there were already very abundant and very productive. A third advantage was that it had a lot of hermaphrodite plants that would almost always pollinate themselves and occasionally cross-pollinate which allowed a little more variety. A fourth advantage was that the area had different levels of elevation which allowed a variety of plants to grow in a small

It has to deal a lot with geographic luck. The chance of your climate or soils being more fertile is completely based on chance. To have larger animals like horses, cows, and camels, you need to have food that the animals can sustain themselves on. A lot of plants in New Guinea do not have a lot of protein in them, so it is very hard to keep the larger animals alive long enough for you to build farms, or use them as vehicles. Because there is only so few foods with protein in New Guinea, all their effort is put into finding more food, so there aren’t any metal workers or anything of the sort. That’s why I think It has to be geographic luck.

The society was affected because the farm lands abandoned and the food food prices dropped. There was not as much food needed because the populations had dropped. The people were down sick and they could not work which caused the farm lands to be abandoned and

They didn’t have the proper farmland and the same animals. Furthermore, this digressed the way their civilization spread and grew. Diamond researched and established that certain lands were blessed only due to their geographical location. The earliest civilization began in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East. This land had rich soil and a variety of animals, which made the land promised and geographically lucky. As time passed people living in the area learned new ways to keep their civilization alive. The Fertile Crescent became known as the “Promised Land” and a way of survival was introduced as farming and the domestication of

Well according to Jonathan Overpeck in the video “Demis of the Anasazi,” there was a long drought, vegetation died, crops failed, and there was no longer enough food for the Anasazi people. “It was making it difficult to sustain the large population of people that had made establishment there.” The populations were to large to sustain the little amount of agriculture and food they had and it started to drive them out (2016,

Mesopotamia’s climate consisted of temperatures rising from 110 to 120°F in the summer. This led to many dry days that eventually led to a severe drought. Basically, there was little to no rainfall from the

Diamond believes that the main reason why people were able to create such a great civilization in Middle East is because they had over produced food so people were able to specialize in labor and produce military, leaders, architects, art and such. But why New Guineans were not able to do the same?

The people of Mesopotamia also had bad world because of the overload of water that caused them to have a surplus of food. The Nile allowed the Egyptians to work their crops instead of worrying about the river, unlike the people in Mesopotamia. Due to the flooding of the

Mesopotamia was an ideal place to start civilization. It has natural barriers as well, which are rivers and mountains. Because the rivers surrounded Mesopotamia, it was suitable for farming. With the Map of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent seen in document 2, it can be proven that the area of Mesopotamia is located in the Fertile Crescent. In Mesopotamia, farming

Not only did the domestication of animals help create a surplus of food, it also helped them with their work because the animals could do tasks for the humans. These documents support the statement that the switch from hunting and gathering to

Three advantages were the climate of the Fertile Crescent was wet in the winters and dry in the summers, ancestor crops were already very productive and fruitful, and many of the crops that inhabited the Fertile Crescent were self-pollinating.

Biographical factors in New Guinea included lack of protein from crops, few animals to do labor, and no epidemic diseases to keep away invaders. In Australia, the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle caused a

The relationship between the two religion (Muslims and Christians) worsened because the Christians sacked towns the Muslims were living in. They killed millions of people when they did these invasions.

Why are certain countries LDCs? What made MDCs- specifically those in Europe- quickly develop into the advanced countries they are today? Why does Papua New Guinea, a state that has had inhabitants for more than 40,000 years, not have the same technologies as New York City, a city that has existed for about 400? In a span of nearly 30 years, Professor Jared Diamond has both solved and answered these questions by juxtaposing diverse states such as Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Zambia, and Singapore with one simple word: Geography. Geography includes factors that shaped the evolution of life, like the distribution of plants and animals, the spread of Eurasian technology, the shape of continents, and the type of farming done in a certain location. While some people believe that Professor

The people of the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea have been a source of interest to anthropologists since the early 1900s, when Bronislaw Malinowski first studied them. In a time when anthropology was "barely established as a formal discipline" (Weiner, 1988), Malinowski had an intense interest in ethnographical field work as well as the fascinating culture of the natives of what was then called Papua, the southeastern part of mainland New Guinea. The Trobriand way of life is extremely different from that of typical western or eastern cultures. In addition to being a matrilineal society, the Trobrianders engage in markedly different courtship and marriage activities, and have been able to preserve much of their culture despite