In today's class, we had a lock-down drill. Mr. Schick had told us the procedures that would happen yesterday, so we were well prepared. We heard one of the teachers over the intercom say that the lock-down would be occurring at this time. We had the lights turned off and we all went into a corner of the room which no one outside of the room could see. As we were all in the corner, we were told to be quiet. I heard lots of whispering and there was actually a game of 'would you rather...' being played next to me. After about 10 minutes, the lock-down ended and we resumed our time learning about Jared Diamond and his studies.
We learned how domestication of crops and animals can affect the advances of different cultures. Diamond inferred that sometimes, a cultures development could depend on where you were located, or in other words, geographical luck. Sometimes it could depend on where you were located and what resources were located where. Jared also wanted to know what kinds of animals people domesticated back then. Jared found out that there are 148 different kinds of species that are over 100 pounds and that can be domesticated. Of those 148, only 14 different species back then were domesticated. The list of the domesticated species are:
>Goats >donkeys >Reindeer
>Sheep >Bactrian Camels >Yaks
>Pigs >Arabian Camels >Mithans
>Cows >Water Buffalo >Bali Cattle
>Horses >Llamas
We also found out that none of these animals were native to the entire North American continent, Australia, and South Africa. They were however native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
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