Guns, Germs, And Steel

Today in Western Civ. we started watching a movie. Jared Diamond is the main person in this video. He is an author, professor for UCLA and is a biologist. He also has a major passion for birds. He often visits Papua New Guinea to see rare birds. People who are living in Papua New Guinea have lived there longer than people have been living in America. They are still living as hunter gatherers and they are one of the only remaining examples of this. A line that a native villager said to Diamond was " Why you white men have so much cargo while us New Guineans have so little?" Cargo is material goods that were brought by people who had more money and that were more civilized. Power back then was determined by skin color. Hunter Gatherers were people who woke up and immediately started looking for food. Sago is an important fruit to the native people.