Domestication of the horse

In the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel is written to answer a question posed by a New Guinea man named Yali. Yali’s question was “Why is it that you whites people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” 1 (GGS page 14). Basicly this question in asking why the white Europeans able to have all the cargo1 (What is Cargo) when blacks from New Guinea did not make or have much cargo. Diamond writes…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the previously unrivaled reign of the horse as the primary supplier of transportation and physical power came to an end with the advent of the automobile. Since their domestication, horses had remained relevant and even integral to human society despite technological advances, but that trend finally came to an end. This transition seems innocent enough, and even helpful, but a similar situation with serious implications is presently unfolding at this…

women has been present for a good portion of history, but with feminist movements becoming more and more present and talked about it is sad to see the big players in pop music, such as Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I., supporting the domestication of women which thus supports the loss of women’s rights. When young, impressionable girls and boys heard this song on the radio or…

Jared Diamond explores the history of the world from a unique view. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist himself, he was not particularly trained to examine the world in the way an anthropologist would. This book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society, delves into the known world and societies within it, at least as of 1997. Diamond wanted to uncover why history unfolded differently on the different continents over the last 13 thousand years, but more importantly he wanted to…

Jared Diamond is an author best known for his book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” which won a Pulitzer Prize. Diamond’s book and beliefs were that geography, the domestication of animals, immunity to germs, food production, and the use of steel were why societies were more successful than others and this book received much controversy among different scientists. Diamond traveled the world to peel back layers of the past to explore the very roots of power in the modern world. They are the biggest…

dynasty sculpture art was influenced by the then and there: advances in the domestication of the horse and how man dominates over animals, the importance of the horse in everyday life and also in the military, and the people that were being introduced to them from other cultures. But in similarity, both time periods have art that is influenced by what is most important to them at the time. For those during the Tang dynasty, horses were very important and so were the presence of many new…

The domestication of animals also allowed for farmers to more effectively farm their land (Diamond 74). However, not all places had land that was suitable for the development of agricultural practices that would produce enough food surplus for the people to have…

humans, but upon a closer look, it is really a comparison of a naturally domestic animal and an animal that needs to be domesticated. While chickens have evolved to exhibit less aggressive and more domestic behaviors, Paul D suffers the process of domestication. As punishment for running away, schoolteacher forces Paul D to wear an iron bit in his mouth, a situation unnatural to all humans, and sells him to an equally cruel man, Brandywine. While the bit strips Paul…

food in the forest, because the plants aren't fruit bearing or are poisonous. Another way they make food is by growing crops. This is also very slow because it is all done by hand. Horses, cattle and other powerful beasts did not spread to this region. They do have pigs but they aren't a great advantage. Without horses to pull a plow, they have to do it themselves, thus taking more and more effort to survive. Men hunt and scavenge but it isn't a constant source of food. The people of Papua New…

The African Wild Ass or African Wild Donkey (Equus Africanus) the scientific name. Is a critically endangered species of wild donkey. Related to horses, zebras and other species of donkeys, it is one of a couple of species of the Equus breed to be rare or close to extinct. And is believed to be the long lost ancestor of the donkey that we know today. The African Wild Ass is known to live in the deserts and other arid regions of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and the Horn of Africa. It formerly had a…