Blog #3

What is the most effective way for a ruler to maintain order?

I think that the most effective way for a ruler to maintain order is to put make laws for people to live by. What I mean by making laws is the like the laws we have today in the modern world, for example, if you steal you should get punished. I don't think that there should really harsh laws for people that do a small crime. I think the punishment should be prison or maybe that person can't get something they want for a specific period in time. When they do something horrible like killing a person then the punishment should be prison for 5 years. Some people just don't want to do obey the laws and risk getting punished, such as when you steal there is a risk of going to prison. There are many laws in the society and the most important laws are the ones that people know. So in conclusion I believe there needs to be laws for a ruler to maintain order.

Blog #2

I agree with Jared Diamonds thesis. I agree that in the Middle East there was geographical luck. You had to be lucky to evolve and develop in a place where you could have good crops, domesticated animals and a good climate to help with the crops. The main crops where wheat and barley and those crops where full of protein and in most places they didn't get enough protein. There were 14 animals that could help with crops and everybody life and 13 of them came from the middle east. The climate was rain and sun which helped with plants. You could also use more information because they could have had a year of good luck then bad, and another place had good luck but nobody has discovered it yet, so that means you need more information. In conclusion they were lucky.

1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Farming

The advantages of farming is that you could get fresh produce such as tomatoes and lettuce, you could use animals like horses to help you out in the process. But all of this comes at a cost. The disadvantages of farming is that all this is very costly, buying the seeds, the soil, water, the animals that help you out, plows, and etc. It could cost a lot of money it you get a large farm. Another disadvantage of farming is that if you live in San Francisco and there is always fog and rain and not enough sun the plants could die. Some other advantages of farming is that you could save animals such as goats, sheep or cattle. If we would have hunted these animals for food they could become endangered and lost all the benefits they bring like wool for clothes.