Fourth Day of Guns, Germs, and Steel

Today we continued watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. Today the main idea was Animal Domestication. This is when humans control animal breeding, feeding, and location. Animals had lots of benefits such as clothing, meat, work, warmth, fertilizer, and more. Goats and sheep were the first animals to be domesticated. The next to be domesticated were pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithians, and bali cattle. These have been the only 14 animals fully domesticated for work. The bigger animals such as horses and cows were the most helpful for labor by dragging things like plows which was a major invention for farming to advance. Plant eating animals were the easiest to domesticate since they don't need other animals grown to feed them. Then we began to talk about how societies worked with trading services or items for other services or items.