2/4/15

Today in West Civ we finished watching the video that we started a couple days ago. Here are the rest of the notes that I took: 

In the area of Jordan, people start making plaster from limestone.The plaster helped to seal cracks and holes in the house and would help controlling the home temperature easier. This was a big advancement in understanding and control fire. The creation of plaster through adding heat to limestone would eventually lead to helping make steal. 

Fertile Crescent:

• Became dry from all the farming, and weren't many trees and vegetation, so people left
• People traveled east and west because there were similar climates and vegetation (this helped because the climate stayed pretty much the same and people didn't have to change their how the grew crops)
• This movement spread farming and trade of skills, goods, animals, and crops (if this didn't happen America would not be at all what it is like today)

A cool fact I learned from the video is that Americans eat 21 million tons of wheat a year.

The reason Americans have so much cargo and New Guineans don't is because of geographical luck. If New Guineans had what we started out with, then they would be the ones with all the cargo.