24 January, 2019 Class

Today, on my mother's birthday, I had my first Honors Western Civilization class. Exciting (especially since it should boost up my GPA)! Even though I had already watched the entirety of the Guns, Germs and Steel video before going to the class, I had to watch it again along with the class. I got some extra notes that I thought would be important.
  After the Middle East started farming wheat and barley, people in other places also started farming.

• China started planting rice.
• The Americas planted corn, squash, and beans.
• Africa planted sorghum--a type of grain--, millet, and yams.

Although farming brought great prosperity to all of the above places, it was Papua New Guinea's downfall.

Goats and sheep were the first animals domesticated. Then, big animals such as pigs, cows, and horses followed behind.

Between the 138 animals above a hundred pounds which could be domesticated, 14 were actually successfully domesticated:

• Goats,
• Sheep,
• Pigs,
• Cows,
• Horses,
• Donkeys,
• Bactrian camels,
• Arabian camels,
• Water buffalo,
• Llamas,
• Reindeer,
• Yaks,
• Mithuns, and
• Valley cows.