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Today in class we watched jeopardy. It was pretty fun cause we got to see questions that I haven't even thought off in a million years. Also, we didn't have to do any work since this was the last day of human geo class until Tuesday where we have western civil. I also don't have Mr. Schick anymore cause I'm moving two floors up to Mr. Fendryk. Jeopardy was very interesting cause some of my classmates new some of the answers to questions I have never heard of. Finally, even though I could have done better in this class I still have learned a lot and I hope I have a good time in western civilization.

Today we took a test on jared diamond and the culture of Papa New Guinea. I think I did really good on this test and this test should raise my grade because I have a 85% so above an 85 should lift it. To me I think I only got like one or two wrong total. Which was the one where it talked about the prehistoric age and what came before it which I thought is the ice age. Also, the one where it talked about what is wrong with the fertile crescent and I put the volcanoes but now I think it was overarming. I also studied the 14 different animals that can be domesticated and that are 100 pounds and more a lot and there was only one question which said that the only one that wasn't one that could be domesticated. Finally, we have learned a lot about the this topic and what Yalis question really meant to us and Jared diamond.

Today we watched the rest of the video we have been reviewing for the past week. It talked about the agriculture and the animals that make farming better. Like the New Guineans don't have cows and chickens that can make it easier to get food and make farming easier for like pulling things. We also learned that sense they don't have cows and other animals they don t get the right food cause I they get there is sago, bananas, and some other fruit. I also learned that there is 100 million cows in the the United States which means there could be 1 cow for every 3 people. Also there was animal domestication in the video where you interact with them and actually care for them. By the way the goats and sheep were the first animals to be domesticated in the ancient times. Finally, there is only about 14 species of animals that are domesticated and above 100 pounds.

Today we learned more about the papa New Guinea culture and agriculture. So from the video it talked about the Draa which is the what they believed was the first community that was ever discovered and ran by people. These. communities of people were in number of about 40-50 people so not at all. compared to modern day communities. This place also held the first ever farm created by man, and what was different about the two place Draa and Papa New Guinea was that Draa was a place where they planted wheat and barley way more nutritious and had way more protein than the sago from the tree that New Guineans made. I also learned that the places that started farming one thing and it came from there was China which had rice, Americas which had beans, squash and corn and finally South Africa which had sorghum, millet, and yams. Finally, this wouldn't be possible for Jared Diamond to do all of this if it weren't for geographical luck.

Today we learned a lot about the Papa New Guinea culture and Jared Diamond. Like we learned that these people choose the lifestyle of hunter and gatherer, which is a lot like the stone age or prehistoric age which only happens other then them is only like the Amazon or Northern Canada or Alaska. I also  learned that there is people in Papa New Guinea that live in the modern world like on the coast of the country cause it is an island. The video we have been watching has also taught me how these people actually eat like for one they have to hunt the animals like the deer and other animals that contain a lot of meat. They also get food from trees called wild sago which the way they eat it is like they have to turn it it into dough which can take a few days and cook from that dough. Finally, I learned from Jared Diamond was that the ways to make up a great civilization is to have a advanced tech, large populations and a well organized work force.