Differences Between Papua New Guinea And The Middle East

According to Jared Diamond, some societies advanced more quickly than others because they had more productive natural resources, which allowed them to innovate. When comparing the two regions of Papua New Guinea and the Middle East, the main difference between the two civilization is the amount of resources each place had. In the Middle East, there was great amounts of wheat and barley. This crop was very essential for a food source because it contained lots of protein and nutrients. While in the civilization of Papua New Guinea, they were extremely limited on what resources they had on the island. What they ate mainly consisted on farming wild sago. Sago is obtained by stripping the outside of the tree in order to get the pulp in the center. This was …show more content…
These animals gave great benefits to a civilization by bringing in milk, wool, meat, and also helped plant by pulling a plough in a field. While in Papua New Guinea the only domesticated animal was a pig. A pig only gives you meat, and doesn't help out around a farm and doesn't gives you milk or fur. One last reason why the Middle Eastern people had more cargo is because they were geographically blessed. When the ice age hit a while back, temperatures began to drop and the climate became much more dry. This resulted into civilizations needing to flee and look for new land. Luckily in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East offered people many places to farm and spread. The effect of the ice age in Papua New Guinea wasn’t too rough since the island is located near the equator but still some plants or trees may have died off from the temperature change. To conclude, the reason why other regions were able to become more technologically advanced than Papua New Guinea, is because the types of food they had such and wheat and barley, and also the types of animals they