ECON 255 Lecture Notes - Fertile Crescent, Camille Pissarro, Granary

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13 Mar 2014
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Guns, germs and steel are symbols of european domination. Cargo: goods brought to the guineans land by the westerners, symbolizes as the white men"s powers. It is in fact, treated with religious reverence. Great human civilization have some things in common: great technology, large human civilization, and well-organized workforce. Hunting-gathering society, dependency on climate for sustainable supply of food not enough surplus to stimulate trade. Food the traditional society has is not sufficient in nutrition shorter life span. Domestication the way human civilization creates better genes of crops the way human interrupts with natural process. The food we eat is the source of inequality people in the us obtain better nutritious quality of corps this theory is too simple. They are unsuitable as muscle energy to plough the land. The fertile crescent in the middle east: this area is geographically blessed, endowed with rich resources the first time when human civilization emerged. New skills and new technology were created.

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