AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns, Germs, and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11,000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that
The use of language is woven into such a dynamic doctrine in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that it speaks mountains of Nietzsche’s genius. The aspect of two voices speaking as one shows a grasp for the written word that few have accomplished. With metaphors abound and a deep understanding of literary masterpieces, Nietzsche portrays the world that we live in with such grace. The literal translation of the book takes a highly spiritual stance, but in between the lines there is such depth of knowledge and
Biodiversity Hotspot of the Mountains of Central Asia Central Asia is associated with seven countries: Western China, Southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, northeastern Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Central Asia has many sub-regions, a wide range of altitude belts, and surrounded by some world’s highest mountain ranges, such as the Tien Shan and the Pamir, the latter is known as the “roof of the world”. The mountains of Central Asia have a high level of biological diversity due
fridge? When you really look into it, it’s not a simple question to answer, but there are major factors that help you understand the inequality across the globe. We’re unequal due largely in part to agricultural accomplishment, the successful domestication of animals, the immunity to certain diseases, and advancements in technology. All of these factors were determined at one point by the climate and geography of the Earth. Civilizations have developed differently agriculturally based on the
The English colonists considered livestock to be a fundamental aspect of life, thus making the domestication of animals a priority in the New World. The introduction of free-roaming livestock to North America largely contributed to the history of distrust, violence, and conflict between Native Americans and English colonists. Colonists saw the lack of domesticated animals as a sign of the native peoples’ societal ineptitude and filling that void became a central component in their plan to force
Farmer Power 25. The most important product of the five proximate factors of an agricultural society is epidemic diseases. Epidemics evolve in areas with large amounts of varying wild flora and fauna that are suitable for domestication. The resulting crops and livestock feed the human population. Diseases evolve from germs of the domesticated animals themselves. 26. Society’s that are primarily agricultural allow for an increased population, as opposed to hunter-gatherer societies. In areas with
In the year 1960, the hunters and gatherers of Papua New Guinea still had only stone axes to chop down their sago trees. In that same decade, an American man set foot on the moon. Why is that? Modern Americans never stop to think why, both in the past and now, white Europeans were conquering the world and inventing modern life while some societies still had to chase down wild animals to eat. It wasn’t because they were smarter, it wasn’t because they tried harder, it wasn’t because they were white
Secondly, a factor of the environment which assisted in the advancement of Eurasia was the immunity to diseases. With the domestication of animals, came several diseases. When raising livestock people interact with animals more than if they were hunting the animal. The animals have to be cleaned, fes and cooperated on a daily basis. The interaction between animals and humans, allows germs to evolve in order to spread onto a human host. Most lethal diseases come from animals or other living things
birds of the family numididae, which is original to Africa. The fowls develop their names from Guinea, part of the West Coast of Africa. The related to other game birds such as the pheasants, turkeys and partridges; they have a long history of domestication. According to Alfred J. Smuskiewicz, guinea fowl are plum roundish in bodies and have a range in length from sixteen to twenty-eight inches. They can weight up to between 1.5 to 3.5 pounds. Guinea fowl have an life span of ten to fifthteen years
It affects a civilization because they without that animal or animals.` Hide or Meat. The requirements for domestication are: To be able to be tamed, herbivore and the animal's location. Not all animals can be domesticated because any animals are carnivores, any animals are to fast and to strong to be domesticated. “Zebras” any civilizations dont have the same