Day 51- Watching the frst half of Guns Germs and Steel

The show as covered in my previous blog is one on how people got to where they are today and also why some people have more than other. Today the movie showed the first settlement in the world which is 11,500 years old and was the first settlement to domesticate plants for farming. They selected wheat and barley that would have the best characteristics like size and taste. The settlement started right after the ice age and there wasn't many food so that was the only way to make their living. The settlement is also the first settlement to have a grainery which would keep their grain fresh for a long time so they always had a steady food supply. Also the people of the island on the movie are one of the only ones that are not even a stage one civilization. The total time we got through in the move was about 22 minutes.