Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Jared Was Right

Jared Diamond was right on or pretty darn close with his theory of geographic luck. He says that the people in the Middle East or Northeast Africa (like where Egypt is located at.). These people got the top crops such as wheat which has lots of protein, fast to grow and can be stored for a long period of time. When the people stopped hunting and gathering which was much harder then growing plants because there is lots of travel, you have to stay in caves and if there is no food, you have to move on. Now that there are these crops that the settlers found and all of it's benefits, you now can start to build your group of people, learn new skills and become something different then the rest.These people lived on there little farms and start the modern style of living. That is why the middle east grew so fast and when it was time to leave to go to Europe and Asia, they were ready to start right away and go into the future. When you look at all of the successful civilizations of the ancient times such as Egypt, Rome, Greece, they were all around the Middle East.

1 comment:

  1. Good work, Ben. Glad to see you understood the Geographic Luck theory.

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