Review of Jarod Diamond's Discoveries

Today we have Western Civ first mod, so most of us were still waking up at the time. To start our class off we discussed some of the things we saw in the video. We came up with other reasons why the people of Papua New Guinea are behind in terms of technology. I came up with the conclusion that one of the reasons they aren't up to speed is the lack of oil in the area, and the lack of iron and other metals. Some other reasons that they may behind is their remote location in terms of the distance between Europe and Papua New Guinea. This discussion lasted almost all of class, and for the rest of class we watched more of the video. Today was a pretty good class.