Papua New Guinea Religion

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The people in Papua New Guinea didn’t have good food source unlike the Fertile Crescent they had a good source of food wheat and pigs. The people in New Guinea only had stone tools and the sago trees and the sago trees are not a good food source they wasted to much energy harvesting the sago and it doesn’t store for a long time. Wheat can be stored for a very long time and it is easy to harvest.

The Spanish were immune to smallpox but the Inca weren’t immune to smallpox and the spanish had great advantages compared to the inca they had iron and the inca had gold also the spanish had muskets and swords. The inca in the movie we watched they were coming as a celebration not knowing it was a war the incas king or god didn’t understand the bible and the priest took it as war. The Spanish came out of nowhere and decimated the inca.

The Smallpox virus took out decimated and killed the Europeans in the fertile crescent because they had pigs and other animals like cows, sheep, etc anyways the Europeans had iron but no way to smelt it they didn’t have experts. The spanish brought the pigs, sheep, cows etc and they were immune from smallpox and the Europeans weren’t immune thats how the Europeans got decimated.
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The people of the fertile crescent had domesticated animals horses or donkeys and other animals. The ways to tame or in other words (domesticate) you need food, water, and a place to keep the animals. They kept the animals in confined spaces close to them and they got smallpox from them. The Spanish kept the animals confined but farther away from them and they didn't get smallpox they were

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