Tuesday, January 25, 2011

GUNS,GERMS, & STEAL

Today we watch a video about Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA. However, his real passion has always been the study of birds. He began watching birds when he was 7 years old and he came to Papua New Guinea when he was 20 years old and has been making trips to New Guinea ever sense. Over the pas he has become very curious about the people of New Guinea. Jared Diamond's main goal is to peal back the roots of the past. There have been people living in new Guinea for about 40,000 years. Its one of the earliest civilizations in the world. A man once asked Diamond, Why do u white men have so much cargo but we New Guineans have so little? New Guineans use the word "cargo" to describe new goods. 

Why are these people still using stone tools? No its not because they are less intelligent then any other people. As the videos continues Diamond will explain why they do not advance in more modern ways.