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Guns, Germs, and Steel

• early middle eastern people became surrounded by fields of domesticated crops and livestock
• animal domestication
• goats ans sheep were the first domesticated animals in the world
• New Guineans never used plows because they did not have the animals to do so
• 14 species of domesticated animals over one hundred pounds- goats, sheep, pigs, cows, Arabian camels, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels, water buffalo, llamas, rain deer, yaks, mithans, Bali cattle
• None of the animals listed above are from New Guinea, Australia, or Sub-Saharan Africa, or North America
• South America only domesticated llamas
• and the rest of the domesticated animals are from Asia, North Africa, and Europe, and the Middle East
• New Guineans were not productive enough and everyone was to busy searching for food to feed themselves that they could not develop technological breakthroughs