Guns, Germs and Steel Pt. 2

            In class today, we continued to watch the video with Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs and Steel," just to make sure that the information is stuck in our head. Today's section of the video was mainly about animal and crop domestication. Domestication in general is controlling/altering the natural growing and habitat process of crops and animals. Domestication allowed for different civilizations to thrive because now they have a steady food source. In total, humans have tried to domesticate 148 different types of 100 pounds+ animals. Out of all of these tried animals, on 14 have successfully been domesticated. These animals come from all sorts of classifications. More specifically, these animals are; goats, pigs, cows, horses, sheeps, cows, donkeys, arabian camel, llamas, bactreian camels, water buffalo, reindeers, yaks, mythons and bali cattle. People mainly only want to domesticate land animals that are considered "beasts of burden". Animals that fall into this category would include ones such as horses, donkeys, and yak because they are very strong and powerful.