Guns, Germs, and Steel day 2

Today in Human Geography it was only a 40 minute period because we had a two hour delay. In class we continued the video on Guns, Germs, and Steel. We picked up at the part where Yali was asking the really important question. We saw today in the video how the New Guineans got there food from trees. The women would use an axe to cut the tree down and then break it open and get the inside out for them to eat. They get about 70 pounds of food from one tree but one downfall about that is that the food doesn't stay fresh for very long. We also discussed how the people of New Guinea won't move to a better place because they have no idea that they are almost the only people in the world still in stage one of the demographic transition. This pretty much wraps up class today.

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