Monday, December 1, 2008

My thoughts about the movie "Guns, Germs, and Steel"


Today in humanities class we watched a documentary called “Guns, Germs, and Steel”. After watching 45 minutes of it and side by side making notes Mr. McQueen told us to write a heading which summarizes our understanding of the movie. “Did it just take farming to arise a civilization?” was my heading. It was so because the movie focused on food I wouldn’t say that food isn’t important but some other things are as important to. My thoughts about this activity were that when one country started to develop another took one level higher, like domesticating animals before it was just around the Middle East put then it spread towards India and Arica. Also protein is key for a worker to keep him/her healthy and in working condition but not only workers also children and other people in the community/clan. Talking about domesticating animals the narrator mentioned that vegetarian animals were good for domesticating because [as Mr. McQueen said] if they domesticated carnivores they would need meat to feed them and they themselves did not have enough meat for themselves, he also said that after observing over a thousand vegetarian mammals that weighed over a hundred pounds and found out that only 14 were capable and friendly enough to work with us humans.4 of the best animals were cows, pigs, goats and
sheep which don’t harm us. After some years because of the needless use of the resources, plants and fruits Middle East looks like this:
In conclusion this world has changed but step by step. From hunting animals to breeding them and from gathering to farming.


1 comment:

Im fabian said...

Great entry. But you didnt really talk about farming. Maybe you should add that