Diamond's Thesis

I agree with Diamond's thesis that The spread of agriculture and the start of civilizations where due to geographical and circumstantial luck. If the people in the fertile crescent had geographical luck because when they started agriculture they had the right weather, plants, and animals. But in New ginny where they also started farming they did not have the right animals or plants so they could not create the surplus that they need. So that not every one had to farm and people could become specialists. In the middle east they had all the right things so when they had a surplus in food they could create a much more advanced civilization. That is why i agree with diamond's thesis because geographical and circumstantial luck where what allowed civilizations to be created.

Do The Advantages Of Agriculture And Farming Outweigh The Disadvantages?

Even though there are many disadvantages of agriculture and farming, I think that the advantages of agriculture and farming outweigh the disadvantages because agriculture and farming allow you to stay in one settled location and a person always knows that they are going to get fed. moving around from place to place dose not seem like fun for one thing you cant have a lot of items but also it must be stress full to not know where you are going to rest your head at night. In general or at least I know that Im comforted by the thought that I know there will be food on my pleat when the next meal comes. that is a result of agriculture and farming if we where still hunter gatherers then there where some days when you didn't get a meal because you couldn't find food. Even though in my opinion the advantages of agriculture and farming outweigh the disadvantages there are still many Disadvantages. Some of the Disadvantages are that plants that are tended to by farmers do not have as many adaptans to the climate as plants found in the wild and if some virus spread to one plant all of the plants are in one area so they all would get infected.