POLS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Technology, International Inequality
Document Summary
New guinea had been inhabited for over 40,000 years. Civilization first developed near the dead sea. Invented ways to preserve grain (granary) in order to continue to feed community members. Learned how to grow their own food (wheat and barley) instead of relying on the land. Type of farming and farming in general led to a difference in global inequality. Middle east had wheat which was nutritious, productive, and easy to store making them flourish. New guinea had taro which had no protein and was very hard to store because it would go old very quickly so they failed to flourish. When arriving to new guinea, people of european descent believed that they deserved more cargo or believe they to be better than others. End of colonialism and the breakup of empires until the 1970"s (europe gave up territories) Very optimistic in 1950"s but did not work out very well (unfounded)
