COWS AND WHEAT!

We continued onto part 6 of the video today. All the animals and crops in the Fertile Crescent spread out into different parts of the world, completely transforming people’s lives. We talked about how if to places share the same latitude then they share plants, animals, their length of day, and their growing resources. The last couple of things we talked about from the movie had to do with cattle and wheat; in the 16^th century people brought cows to the United States and currently there are about 100 million cattle in the United States. Wheat: the average American consumes about 20 million tons of wheat per year. One last thing we talked about was why the people of New Guinea didn't just have other animals other than pigs be brought to their island, we discussed this and came to the conclusion that they just couldn't because they lived in a rain forest and they couldn't just let cattle graze and walk around in a closed area, they would have to create an open space for them but the people of New Guinea couldn't just rip up all their trees and vegetation that may inhabit other animals and some of the trees also give them their food. That was all for today!