COR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Smallpox, Appalachian Mountains
1 Mar 2017
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Thesis: tell me about jared diamond"s ideas on the role of resources in world history. Trees made a difference b/c the bigger the tree the bigger the boat, the bigger the boat the farther you can go, the father you can go the more you can colonize. Yali"s question: jd: birdwatcher, going to new guinea. Impenetrable jungles: new guinean walks up to him and says how come you white guys have so much cargo and we new guineans don"t? . Jd didn"t know the answer but wanted to find out why. Mountains: go n & s (for the most part) Sierra nevada: weather travels from california-new york, when you can get weather that"s more or less the same on both sides of the mountains, the whole thing becomes fertile. Greenland (near ocean: only reason things grow in central california is bc of irrigation. Alps run west to east: why europe flourished, stuff on both sides.
