Monday, January 14, 2013

My Participation score

Well now that I know that I'm not the 75 % or 60 % ..I'm all good. I think i should get an 83%  or 85%. I know I have talked but I did pay attention. I had a lot of fun interesting conversation about awesome topics.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Notes!

-Jared Diamond- PhD in Human Physiology
- some civilizations have advanced
- all great civilizations have these things in common : advanced technology, large populations, and well organized work force.
- Drah is the oldest village
- its a 11 1/2 thousands years old
- Granery- place to store grain and food
- First farmers in the world- people set up there site and plant near the river
-Domestication- the way crops finding it planting ,storing, planting



Thursday, January 3, 2013

Jared Diamond


Jared Diamond is an American scientist, author, anthropologist, and teacher. He is from Boston, Massachusetts. He went to Harvard College.  He has written many books including "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" which was his 3rd book but most popular out of all of them. He specializes in the Gall Bladder.  He’s made many trips to New Guinea.  He currently teaches at UCLA. In 2008, he wrote an article for The New Yorker. Two men that were stated in the article a year later sued Diamond for 10 million dollars. 



"Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" is a book written by Jared Diamond.  It was published in 1997. It’s won a Pulitzer award and the prize for best science. In 2005, a National Geographic special on aired on the book. In the book, he discusses why on different continents history has been discovered and told differently.  He talks about Eurasia and the different agricultural advantages it has. One of them is grain in which it can be stored for a long period of time so it can be used and bought more.  He has sold millions of copies worldwide.