We watched a video called Guns, Germs and Steal the main person was Jared Diamond. He is an author, porfesser at UCLA and he studies birds. He usually visits this place called Papa New Guinea. The people here have been there for more than 40,000 year. They still live the way they did when the civilization first started, they are very underdeveloped. One thing that really stuck with Diamond was was one of the people in Papua New Guinea said to him "why you white men have so much cargo, and we new Guineans have so little?". We also learned that all great civilization have something in common advanced technology a large population well organized work forced. We also learned that everyone 1300 years ago everyone was a hunter gather and people in Papa New Guinea are still hunter gathers. We then started to learn about Draa a civilization near the Dead Sea which is one of the earliest permanent civilizations in the world.