GUNS,GERMS, & STEAL part 2

Today in class we continued to watch the video "Guns, Germs, and Steal. In this video Diamond realizes that the question the man from Papua New Guinea asked "Why do u white men have so much cargo but we New Guineans have so little?" was far bigger and more complex then it first appeared. It was really about the roots of inequality, a question as old as human history itself. 
We learned that 13,000 years ago the ravages of the last ice age we over, the world was becoming warmer and wetter. One area were humans were thriving was the Middle East. People here lived like people everywhere 13,000 years ago, like hunter-gatherers. 
We also learned that because hunting is so unpredictable, traditional societies relied more on gathering. In some parts of Papa New Guinea the gathering is done by woman. An important part of food in New Guinea is wild Sego.