More on the video

We watched more of the video on James Diamond today! In today’s video we learned that before the industrial revolution people used a horse and plow and just basically depended on most of their animals. There are about two million species of animals in the world and out of all those there are only really fourteen of which we can use and domesticate: goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels (Bactrian and Arabian), water buffalo  llamas, reindeer, yaks  mithans, and ball cattle. We have found that zebras are not able to be domesticated because of their on-edge nature. Also the people in the video talk about when they want to control a herd of animals they would look for the leader of the herd (usually a male) and try to gain control over that animal and then usually the other animals would do the same. Jared Diamond’s theory was that some areas were just lucky enough to have the right plants and animals to help them thrive. In South America there were llamas and in the Middle East and Europe the other 13 animals reside. Next in the video archaeologists had discovered a village named Guar that had people living it about 9,000 years ago and they found evidence that people had been able to build their homes out of a plaster made out of rhinestone that has to be heated up to 1,000 degrees to be able to use it like that, but after a while their crops failed to grow so they had to leave the area. New Guinea had never developed advanced technology because most of the time they were looking for ways to feed themselves.