Your location changes what the climate is, and depending on your climate, your food availability is going to change. Your food will change how your civilization is made or how developed it is. In the Fertile Crescent, the people were able to grow wheat. Wheat is very high in protein and can be stored for a long time. Collecting it is not very time or energy consuming, so the people in the Fertile Crescent have some free time to work on other things. They were able to develop specialists. In Papua New Guinea, they grow sago instead. Sago is low in protein and can only be stored for a few days before it goes bad. It takes a lot of time and energy to collect it, so they are working on it all day, and in the end, they lose more energy than is gained from eating it. The Fertile Crescent had more …show more content…
Domesticated animals carried diseases that the Spanish built up immunities to after many years of epidemics. The Incas didn’t have the same animals, and instead only had Ilamas, so they couldn’t develop immunities to diseases such as smallpox. When the Spanish came to South America, they spread their diseases. Over 95% of the Incas got sick and died. As a result, the Incas got behind in the world. The Spanish advanced since they were already immune to the