Domestication

claiming that with human population growing and and new territories decreases they have to spread out. Near the end of the article William explains that domestication is the solution. “This escape is domestication when the ordinary balance of nature was broken and food was made to grow not by nature but by man. He’s claiming that with domestication can restore the natural…

Leah Webster World Civilizations Dr. Turpin 13 November, 2014 Guns, Germs, and Steel At the beginning of this book, Diamond travels to New Guiana and encounters Yali, a local politician, and was asked “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guiana, but we black people had little cargo of our own” (Diamond, 14)? Although this was considered a somewhat simple question, Diamond had no answer for it. In “Guns, Germs and Steel” Diamond focuses on answering…

These cultural memories become stable, reliant on the need for critics to enter productions with preconceived notions of what to expect when critiquing revivals of plays that have, by canonization, received mythic status. Yet the first actors who performed the famous roles written by Tennessee Williams did not have to compete with canonized interpretations. The original performances of Laurette Taylor’s Amanda, Marlon Brando’s Stanley, and Burl Ives’s Big Daddy were acts of creation, rather than…

specialists. Lastly the Incas did not have iron deposits they had gold and tho they made gold weapons gold is much weaker than steel so in battle the Inca gold swords would perish. The development of civilization depends on the agriculture, domestication of animal, germs, and steel. Each region of the world has different civilizations based on the natural resources of the area. The people of each area learned to prosper by what the land had given them. Each natural resource defined the…

Before even beginning his analysis, Diamond notes that a mere several thousand species out of 200,000 total wild plant varieties are even edible to begin with – from this lot, only a few hundred have proved suitable for domestication (Diamond, 132). 12 species account for 80% of the world’s crop production, and general consensus holds that all useful agricultural plants have already been identified by ancient cultures (Diamond, 132); also, virtually all species of seeded grasses…

This was enforced by the Babylonian King who took over Mesopotamia and enforced it there as well. Domestication-where they took wild animals and plants and grew and cared for themselves. Using them for meat and milk. This began to be used a lot in the Neolithic Era. They found a way to get food without having to look everywhere. This also resulted in a food…

Domestication of animals required proximity between humans and the herds. Thus, animal-borne diseases like smallpox, flu, measles, chicken pox, malaria, tuberculosis, and rabies destroyed people groups who did not have a strong immune system (Strayer 61). For…

Techniques and methods besides irrigation systems and terraces were implemented. However, methods like slash and burn agriculture, which is where forests are clear cut and the vegetation remaining is burned for agricultural cultivation. After years of farming the land, it is left to be fallow until the soils regenerate. Slash and burn agriculture can be a viable source of food production assuming the soil and land has been restored with nutrients. Although this practice is unsustainable and…

people and obtained their food by hunting and gathering. This form of food obtainment forced humans to travel frequently, which subsequently prevented permanent settlement. The reason for the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and domestication of animals remains unknown. However, there are several theories that attempt to explain why this turning point occurred. One controversial theory is that humans discovered that farming was safer than hunting and gathering. Another…

people. On the other hand, Binford and Flannery's "Edge zone theory" could be justified in the fact that the vegetation might have been so dependent on people that it couldn't have just appeared without human tending to it. Over time however, the domestication of these people brought jobs and…