·     People of European nations have dominated the world
1.    Jared Diamond 
§  1 of the most Original Thinkers 
§ “haves from have nots” =some people have things, some people don’t have things 
§ How did the world get this way?
2.    Out of Eden 
§ Papua New Guinea (North Australia)
§ Diamond is a professor at UCLA, biologist, specialist in Human Physiology, author, and a bird watcher
§ New Guineans life a remote life
§ People have been living in this part of the world for over 40,000 years, longer then North and South America 
§ They still live the same as they did 40,000 years ago
§ Why is Papua New Guinea so much poorer?
§ Yali- “Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?”
§ Cargo= material possessions
§ That’s evidence of white mans power. 
§ Western colonials thought power was determined by race
§ Making natives carry them across the river 
§ Colonials thought it was natural to have more cargo then New Guineans 
§ All great civilizations have advanced technology, large populations, and a well-organized work force 
= Prehistory- before things started getting written down
§ 13,000 years ago, Middle East, Hunter-gather lifestyle

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