1. By: Khalid Albassam

2.  What was Yali’s Question?

3.  They had better position on the globe.  They had animals that produced meat, clothing and milk.  Animals also helped people transport to places faster.  Technology: like Ships, Compasses and Astrolabes.

4.  Indigenous peoples had no contact to the outside world.  They had never seen Europeans.  They had never seen the technologies the Europeans used.

5.  New Guinea is a small island south of the equator.  It has a tropical climate.  They had no chance of migration due to lack of technology.  They did not have a written language.

6.  The fertile crescent is a crescent shaped region that goes along the middle east.  It is in present day Iraq.  Plant and Animal domestication.  Extra food.  Population expansion.  Ruling class develops.  This led to healthier and stronger people.  This also lead to new technologies.

8.  Smallpox  Malaria

10.  Jared Diamond believes that crops and animals where in habited in unequal locations.  Tropical New Guinea.  Lack of technology.  Lack of resources.  Lack of knowledge.  No contact to the outside world.

11.  New Guineans education.  Tools  Plans 

12.  Education  Land  Resources  Food

13.  Technology