GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Llama, Jeffrey Sachs, Resource Curse
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Ex: what number is counted for montreal, downtown or the whole island: though we must recognize these division are arbitrary, little homogeneity in historical processes, cultural differences in how once interprets (cid:498)urban(cid:499) Domesticable animals: there are surprisingly few domesticated animals. In the world today there are 5 major cases: goats, pigs, cows, horses, sheep, and some other minor casesl camels, llama, alpaca, donkey, reindeer, water buffalo, yak, etc. Eurasia rather than africa: the indigenous version so wheat, rice, barley and sorghum are very similar to the domesticated versions, domestic corn, from mesoamerica, is very different from wild corn. Took much longer to domesticate: bottom line: diamond argues that the domesticated plants are evidence of the domesticable plants, and these are a function of local environmental conditions (cid:498)hearths(cid:499) of agriculture. Transmission of ideas, organization of societies: the uneven distribution of domesticable plants and animals led some parts of the world,
