West Civ 1/28/19

In the middle east, civilization started to store there own food, domesticate plants and soon domesticate animals as well. Along with Diamond's key ideas of every successful civilization must have of advanced weapons, work force, and large populations, the ability to be able to grow your own nutritious food sufficiently and able to domesticate animals to use as meat, sometimes milk, and muscle was a big one. Unlike China which had rice, the Americas had squash, corn and beans, and Africa had millet, yams and sorghum. All of these crops could be domesticated in a timely, sufficient way. Also these country's had animals like goats, cows, llamas, yacks, sheep, and other farming animals. New Guinea only had bananas and sago. these crops are low in nutrients and cant be stored for a long period of time. Plus they take a long time to harvest. Also there only animal is pigs. Pigs can only be used for their meat but don't provide milk, muscle or fur/wool for clothing or materials. Europe, America's, Africa and Asia all got lucky to have these animals and plants just roaming around. Jared Diamond believes that the start of any civilization starts by being able to domesticate plants and animals. After all we started making technologies like granary's to store grain and plows used with animals to efficiently lay more crops down and move things from one place to another. From there technologies stared to spread. On the other hand, New Guinea does not have access to good plants and animals leaving their society/civilization falling behind.