MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Art Music, Food Preservation, Fertile Crescent
20 Jan 2016
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Guns germs and steel: questions for the reading and video. People went from hunting & gathering to farming people started farming and growing their own foods, animal domestication also took place. Asia, north america, europe and middle east: china rice, americas corn, squash & beans, africa yams, millets, yorgums. This allowed people to settle down and produce more food and crops then previously which allowed individuals to become specialized in different fields such as iron, and stone to further more development and creations. The middle east derived the greatest benefit from these technologies because they were in a. Plant and animal domestication were located in the fertile crescent that gave them the advantage in technology. Had the resources to utilize and benefit from were able to have specialist (beginning of. Serious civilizations: these technologies were transferrable latitudinally (east and west), but not longitudinally (north and south). Civilizations that benefited from this was egypt and rome.
