Movie Continued

Today in class we continued watching the movie Guns, Germs, and Steel based on the award-winning book Jared Diamond wrote.  Today it talked about work and how different civilizations got their work done.  Diamond showed how the people in New Guinea still use tools made out of stone.  Even when the Europeans went to New Guinea the people were using stone tools.  When the Europeans visited, they brought some modern day tools and how to advance in their working technology.  New Guineans also discovered that work would be so much easier if they had thousand-pound animals pulling machines then having to do it by hand.  Although, many animals are very hard to domesticate and train to do work.  The video showed people trying to domesticate elephants, but they were unsuccessful.  In the world there are only fourteen domesticated animals that can do work.  They are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, backtrian camels, arrabbean camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, and bali cattle.  All these animals were not always found where they were used.  The animals were found in Africa, Asia, New Guinea, North America, South America, Australia, Europe, and some others.  The people developed using animals to help move big machinery.