Blog Entry #2

I agree with Jared Diamonds thesis of geographic luck leading to the Europeans conquering of the world. to me it makes perfect sense, in all humans across the globe your going to have a range of smart to dumb, and all of them but a few will be ignorant. so the only reason why a certain culture would advance, would be that it was given the opportunity to do so. that opportunity being a surplus of food, created by farmable plants and domesticatable animals leading to artists, specialists, entertainers politicians, leaders, and rulers being fed. then those people advance the culture farther, and more people stay in communities and farm more, and a cycle begins which creates an advanced civilization.