Notes 2/3

Notes...

• More people in villages
• Specialized workers
• New Guinea was still using tools in the 1960s
• food surplus - more food then needed
• New guinea was incapable of this
• The Fertile Crescent
• climate was too dry and ecology too fragile
• could not farm anymore
• people abandoned the villages
• over exploited environment
• located in the middle of Eurasia
• most places that share the same latitude often have the same length of day and other similar characteristics
• people could migrate around to to pther places near the Fertile Crescent
• Egypt
• once the animals and crops reached Egypt, there was explosion of civilization
• suddenly there was enough food for everyone
• Europe
• Europe took these domesticated animals and crops to America
• People are fundamentally similar