INTL 2000 Lecture 1: Reversal of Fortune
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Alternative explanations: we are still looking at the questions of the reversal of fortune, will take 2 separate approaches in this section, military-institutional-technological based on the pursuit of power by william. Mcneill: geographic-institutional based on guns, germs, and steel by jared diamond. Middle east: no role for ideas (especially freedom, capitalism, individualism, republicanism, rationality, really broad arguments. Vi. which was a bit of the guide for previous unit. Papua new guinea: why you white men have so much cargo, and we new guineans have so little? . Crops grown in u. s. are more nutritious and productive: ex. Wheat: not taro and bananas, did not have enough protein, crops rotted quickly. Not many native animals for plowing, meat, fur, feces for fertilization, muscle power. 14 animals that have been successfully farmed come from europe, asia, and north africa: horses, camels, mules, sheep, yak, pigs, cattle. Fertile crescent home to the best crops and farm animals.