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Today in Western Civ. we continued watching the video. The earliest city know to man is the city of Draa. The reason they can tell it is a "city" is because there was at one point a building there which people used to store grain for many years. This building was made to protect the grains that were stored in it form bugs, weather, and other animals. Domestication of plants is when you learn how to plant different types of plants and then growing them around you so you can control what you eat. About nine thousand years ago people learned to domesticate animals. They would capture them and then breed them so that they could have more and harvest more milk from them and then eventually eat them. The answer to Diamonds question ultimately came down to geographical luck. This means depending on what you have in your area you may be able to prosper but if you only have the bear necessities to survive you will not flourish and grow and become a civilization.