Today we continued to watch the movie Guns,Germs,and Steel. Yesterday we left off on the topic of farming,working,and gathering. We Also learned about how archaeologists found one of the earliest settlements located in Papua New Guinea. Today in the movie we learn about animals. The natives yous the animals for milk, clothing,and meant. They also used waste made by the animals as a fertilizer to grow crops. Goats and sheep were the first animals to be domesticated my people. Pigs and cows were the next to be domesticated by people. Ox and horses were the most powerful "machines" on the planet at the time. You could train them,make then work,and also for transportation.
In new guinea they never used plows because they didn't have a large animal to plow for them. The largest animal they had was a pig. The pig cant really supply much for the natives. The pigs cant supply milk, like the goat, they don't have muscle, so they cant plow, and they cant domesticate it well, because they train well. They did have larger animals such a deer, but deer cant be domesticated like other animals.
Many animals were domesticated but they were not practical for farming. A crucial characteristic of a farming animal is that it must get along with humans. Another characteristic would be that it should be a plant eater. Also
14 of the first animals to be domesticated by humans (used for farming):
goats
sheep
pigs
cows
ox
horses
donkeys
2 types of camels
water Buffalo
llamas
rain deer
yachs
mithons
bally cattle
animals that were domesticated but are really not practical for farming:
frogs
tigers
penguins
coyotes
rodents
birds
reptiles
lions
moose
elephants
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