5th day of western civ

Today in Mr. Schicks Western Civilization class, we finally finished watching the video “GUNS GERMS AND STEEL” by National Geographic and UCLA professor Jared Diamond. We finally heard the answer to Yali’s question of “why do you white men have so much cargo, while we New Guineans have so little?” The answer is geographic luck and the types of farming and crops that are native to their land. The New Guinean crops are not as sustainable as wheat and barley, which are found in the Middle East. Jared Diamond said that if the New Guineans were lucky then they would be the ones creating the helicopter and not the white men. Mr. Schick also brought in bread that had twenty-two different grains in it and passed it around to the whole class for us to try. Ham had five pieces and tried to buy the last six for six dollars.

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