At the beginning of class, we reviewed our notes from earlier classes. We talked about the 14 domesticated animals that were over a 100 pounds, herbivores, could produce at a young age, and can live in a community with other animals. We talked about nutrient filled vegetables that were healthy to eat. 

Notes 
·     New Guinea survived for thousands of years.
·     They didn’t advance because they spent all their time feeding themselves.
·     Most of the villages of the Fertile Crescent were abandoned.
·     There were few trees and no grass left.
·     Fertile Crescent- in the middle of a land mass so people that lived there could just move to another area.
·     Same latitude often has the same temperature, plant and animal life, and same days.
·     Americans (United States) consume 20 million tons of wheat a year
·     “People shape their own destiny”
·     Didn’t develop the way the Europeans and Americans did because they don’t have the same geography. 
·     Most towns are by the coast in Papua New Guinea, that’s where foreigners come to trade.

·     New Guineans don’t have as much cargo because of geography

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