What If A Civilization Won T Grow Wheat

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How did one simple grain change the course of everyone’s life forever? The geographical location of a civilization can decide their future. If a civilization lies in the tropics they are unable to grow wheat. An animal can only live on a continent that provides its native food source. So if a civilization cannot grow wheat they won't be able to raise animals who live off wheat. By living with an animal and consuming its products someone can be exposed to smallpox. Smallpox is a very deadly disease. Along with smallpox, steel is very deadly. In Order to make steel everyone needs 4 very specific things. The Europeans were able to decimate so many civilizations because they had many advantages. They were able to grow wheat, which helped them domesticate …show more content…
If a civilization grows food that a specie eats it will attract the animal because of their amount of food. If a civilization can't grow wheat for cows, the cows won't live there because they can’t survive there. If a civilization is able to grow wheat then the cows are easy to capture making them domesticated animals. Domesticated animals help farm, give a great amount of protein, milk, warmth from their hide, and fertilization. Food and weather control the different species that are able to live in the location of the civilization. PNG isn't able to grow wheat causing them to not be able to domesticate cows. They do have pigs but they don't provide milk or work. In the Fertile Crescent the civilizations are able to domesticate cows because they are able to grow wheat. In order for an animal to be domesticated it has to be: a herbivore, reach sexual maturity in 1 year , have some type of social hierarchy, mellow temperament where there's no danger towards the human, and at least 100 lbs. to get a reasonable amount of meat. The Fertile Crescent are able to domesticate sheep, cows, goats, pigs, and horses. Benefiting them in many ways. Being able to domesticate animals helps a civilization advance to a place where they only work so hard for 3 months and have the other 9 months off to make their life easier. They can find ways to defend the civilization and make new …show more content…
As well as helping their architecture advance. The 4 ingredients for making steel are: time, specialists, iron, and a very hot longlasting fire. To get time you must have wheat and domesticated animals. They both provide you with surplus amount of food, which creates specialists. A specialist is someone whom the civilization can spare from harvesting food. The Incas and Eurasia both had these things so far. PNG had to tropical of a climate to grow wheat, pigs weren't useful enough to be able to become a consistent source of food. The next step is iron, PNG and Eurasia had iron. But the Incas only had gold. Which set the Incas back and PNG ahead. With iron as a recourse PNG was able to make farming tools. Lastly there must be a very hot and long lasting fire to melt the iron to become steel. Iron becomes steel when melted and carbon enters the iron. Then when the iron is melted it is submerged into water or oil to harden. By having specialists for making steel you have someone who can play around with it to develop new things. By having steel the Spanish were able to grow by adventuring their farming tools, new weapons, and their architecture. By having swords the Spanish were able to conquer/acquire new territory and resources. For the Inca, by not having steel when the Spanish came affects them drastically. They lost lots of lives from the

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