New Guinea

People in Papua New Guinea used stone tools in 1960 while in America we were able to shop for groceries and buy metal tools. How did countries like Papua New Guinea become so unequal to other countries such as the Fertile Crescent. Europeans had Fertile Crescent (Eurasia) that let them conquer other cultures and take their supplies. Eurasia had the agriculture, domesticated animals, the immunity for germs and the steel.     Geographic location affects what crops a civilization can grow and how they

New Guinea is located in Indonesia, which is situated between Asia and Australia. Papua is a country which occupies the eastern half of New Guinea and is not a very well explored country, geographically, or culturally. A small tribe of about 3000 people occupies a remote and rural part of the southeastern side of the island and they are known as the Korowai tribe. The Korowai people were discovered in Papua New Guinea in 1974. This tribe along with many other tribes in Papua New Guinea experience

New Guinea is an island in the South West Pacific region. It is located “in the continent of Oceania and Australia.” (Worldatlas, 2015) While European only colonized the western half of the island, Australian miners explored the east side of the New Guinea island, which named Papua New Guinea. In 1926, hundreds of Australian came to Papua New Guinea, “the Promised Land,” to search for gold. It was similar to the Gold Rush in the United States. The absence of law led to the system of “staking claims

Island of Papua New Guinea can be extremely hard to travel or research as this remote island has limited infrastructure with very little information to read about in magazine and websites, in short it is like stepping into the great unknown. This is exactly why people are intrigued with trying to save the culture of its people, its wild life and its beautiful rain forest, which are in sever danger of deforestation. The industrial revolution is destroying the Papua New Guinea Rainforest and

Why are we driving cars and using cell phones, while people of Papua New Guinea are using sticks and stones to chop down a tree and hunt?! It’s all because of our geographical inequality. Our world is so unequal depending on where you are in the world. People in Eurasia got the best climate to grow wheat. What does wheat have to do with inequality? Wheat won't grow in Papua New Guinea! Wheat grows in humid climates and takes little effort to grow and farm. Wheat is an easy crop to harvest and grow

Approximately 100 miles (160km) north of Australia, situates the second largest island in the south pacific called Papua New Guinea; occupying the eastern half of the rugged tropical island of New Guinea and some 700 offshore islands. With its comparative area size slightly larger than California, Papua New Guinea is about 287,595 miles in total area, of which 281,394 miles is land and 6,201 miles is water and accumulative of 3,201 miles of coastline. The central part of the island is composed of

How is it that people in Papua New Guinea are still using stone tools and in other countries are using such advanced technology? The Europeans had the right climate for farming, access to domesticated animals, an immunity to germs and steel. This allowed them to dominate countries that didn’t have these advantages.     Latitude and geographic location controls climate. Climate will control how well a country grow crops and what crops will actually grow, this will also affect how much time a civilization

multiple years. Papua New Guinea is a rain forest in the tropics. The wet and warm climate only grows one essential crop, the sago trees require hard work to cut down, open, and mash into a dough. After baking in the sun the food is completed after days of harvesting. This long process produces food that only lasts about a week and is low in protein and calories. Those in the Fertile Crescent don’t spend long harvesting food and have plenty of time to develop technology and new ideas instead of hunting

Why is it that in the 1960’s Papua New Guinea was still using stone tools while Eurasia had stronger and more improved steel tools? Inequality is all over the world. Do we know what started it? Inequality isn't something that can happen overnight, it takes thousands of years to develop. Geography is the biggest reason we have inequality, depending where you're at on the latitude line controls your climate. Europe's geographical location allowed their civilizations to have access to better agriculture

New Guinea highlanders can go to war with each other to avenge ghosts or to exct revenge for the killing of one of their one. As we have to seen from other reports, or lessens we have discussed, people don't seen to comprehend the complex interrelationship among the various parts of their own social system. The leaders of Papua New Guinea see intertribal fighting as a major social problem with severe economic consequences. Although fighting is not new to them, warfare seems to re-emerge in 1970s