2.4.15

Today in west civ we finished watching the movie. We talked about how people came about building their houses and how the houses evolved over many years. The people learned that if they heated limestone to a thousand degrees, it would melt into a pasty liquid that they could use as plaster for their houses. This was very useful to keep their homes cool in the summer and warm in the winter. One thing Jared Diamond noticed about the New Guineans was that almost all of the things they did to make a living today were the same things they did thousands of years ago. It shows how little they have progressed in their way of life. Their living isn't a bad thing, it's just that they don't know how much easier life could be with some of the new modern technology. The US started growing wheat a long time ago and it wasn't even fertile to anywhere in the US, but now today americans eat about 20 million tons of wheat in one year. At the end of the video, Diamond answered Yalee's question with "Geography." There are some other factors as for why some areas are more advanced from others, but  it really matter where you are.