Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA the has traveled the earth in search of the answer to his question , why some parts of the world thrive and why some a so very poor. So in his journey across the earth Jared's firs stop is in New Guinea where he is asked by a local, Yali “Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little. Jared finds that New Guinea is one of the few countries that still has a hunting and gathering type civilization to survive, but people have been living in New Guinea for almost 12,000 years. Villages have been excavated that are over 11,500 years old that actually had very complex systems such as domestication of plants and animals. The Fertile Crescent, the Fertile Crescent is a piece of land in
