Geographical Luck

Jared Diamond was on track with his theory of geographical luck.  His theory was that  for a civilization to be prosperous it had to be in a good geographical location. Jared Diamond  told everyone in his theory that places near the fertile crescent  and places along that latitude line would prosper as civilizations because of the climate.  In our text book we learned that the first civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. Both of  these places are located near the fertile crescent where Jared Diamond said that civilizations would prosper. In the Paleolithic age humans started to make stronger tools that were used for specialized jobs. For humans to make these tool they had to have the resources around them. This goes with Jared Diamond's theory because  if the humans did not have the resources were they lived they could not advance their tool making. In the Bronze Age and the Iron Age  people that lived around bronze and iron  made new discoveries and made new materials out of bronze and iron. The humans that had the geographical luck to live around bronze and iron had an advantage over other places that didn't.   The civilizations that had bronze and iron made new weapons and materials out of them, so they mostly became more successful and more powerful then civilizations that did not have this resource. Geographical luck also affected the population of the society. In the  Paleolithic Age men were in charge of hunting and fighting. The woman were responsible for cooking and caring for the children.  The woman  back then had fewer children because they had to breast feed, so it affected how quickly they could get pregnant. The woman that were lucky enough to live near cows were could stop breast feeding and give there children cow's milk, which mean that they could have more children. If woman could have more children then the population would rise allowing the civilization to grow and develop. This is another example of geographical luck and how it can make a population grow in size. During the Agricultural Revolution humans started to cultivate plants, tame animals, and learn new skills.  The places with best geographical luck had the most useful animals, which helped  their civilization grow.Some animals that places had helped them with their work by pulling heavy items in a shorter amount of time then people could, and some animals were used as a food supply for the people. When people started to cultivate plants for food and to be used for other items they realized that some plants needed to be tended to all year round. This is why villages started to appear.  The places that had the geographical luck to have plants that could be cultivated grew in population because of the villages. The places with villages had more people which meant that they could stop a lifestyle of hunting and gathering and do other things. The people in the villages also became specialized in doing other type of work because their was enough food now. Geographical luck was one of the main reasons that civilizations grew and became powerful. Civilizations with good geographical luck prospered, and places with bad geographical luck did not prosper.