Papua New Guinea

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

Introduction This report is to help introduce the low income of countries such as Chad and Papua New Guinea, and comparing them to a country such as Sweden who has no income. For years, certain countries, as the two listed above cannot maintain a lifestyle with the incomes that are available to them. Using incomes will help to see where the problem is occurring and how it might be approached to aid the countries. Reporting on the countries will give insight into a historical background including

and steel shaped the history of the world? He was prompted to begin exploring these issues when he was visiting Papua New Guinea. He enjoys bird watching and began going to Papua New Guinea when he was twenty-six. He began making regular trips there since then. On one of these trips he met a man on the beach named Yali, and Yali asked him “Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?” This threw Diamond for a loop and from that moment on he began researching and trying

325 words (333) Australia did not always want to grant Papua New Guinea (PNG) its independence. Starting from the end of World War II and into the1950s, the Australian colony of Papua and the United Nations (UN) Trust Territory of New Guinea, merged in 1949, and appeared to lie securely with Australia. The Minister for Territories, Paul Hasluck, in 1951, thought that self-government in PNG was still about a century off. The Australian public, had little concern for PNG. But there were many security

Long ago, us humans were using stone tools. This “Long ago” was the 1960s, in Papua New Guinea. Why was it the people of Papua New Guinea were still using stone tools, but places like Europe were developing planes, cars, and other technologically advanced machines? The big factor to inequality was geography. Europeans were given certain very important geological advantages, being flourishing crops with bountiful harvests, hardy animals rich with protein, an invisible weapon the Europeans didn’t know

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

getting ready to put people on the moon, meanwhile in Papua New Guinea they are still hunting and gathering and working with stone tools. Geography is the root cause of inequality in the world. geography controls climate which in turn controls what crops a civilization can grow and what animals can thrive, with productive crops and domesticated animals civilizations have time to develop new ideas and invent new tools that can help them develop new cultures. The geographic location is very important

People in Papua New Guinea have no phones, computers and no sky scraping buildings. while in most other parts of the world we have all of that and a lot more, in fact, people in Papua New Guinea were still using stone tools in the 1960s and that's was there most advance tools back then. Unlike in places like the fertile crescent were developing metal 7000 years ago why is Papua New Guinea so behind? Societies have to be given the same applies to be able to develop at the same rant as everywhere

Natural gas windfall that’s destroying a country. Papua New Guinea has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Just couple decades ago, the local peoples main form of currency were pigs. Now that the modern industries have arrived to harvest natural resources, the local peoples live’s have been turned upside down. The locals are very angry about this change. Since Exxon has arrived, the locals are out of work and as one of the locals states: “If the situation does not change, there will

Papua New Guinea (PNG) – the quest for development Economic growth is supposed to distribute the prosperity to all people across a country. The higher economic growth means more income to pursue a better life. Economic growth is the precondition for improving the development. No sustained economic development can occur without economic growth (Perkins et al. 2012, p 14). As a result, maintaining the sustainability of growth is crucial to sustain economic development, for example improvements in