Some of the houses have some techniques of air conditioning. The walls were covered with plaster. People were moving to the concept of homes. Its not just a place to sleep, its a proper home. People started to decorate and invest in their homes. It's very expensive to have plaster in your house.
As villages grew larger, there were more people to work on the farms. Some people were able to develop new skills and new technologies. Discovering limestone was a huge deal. They were able to discover steel.
New Guinea never developed. Even today, people are working the same ways the did centuries ago! People were still using stone tools like an axe. Why didn't they develop tools by themselves? They couldn't because they were so low on food all the time they couldn't send other people out to learn how to make new items and gain skills. They spent to much time and energy feeding themselves. Then westerners arrived and used their technology to modernize their technology. They were always okay, but they never progressed. They had it good in someways, they never got cancer or had heart attacks because they were never exposed to stuff like that.
They are looking at the outcome of over exploiting the land. Unable to farm their land, entire communities were forced to move on. They pretty much lost everything. But again, geography was on their side.
Once the crops reached Egypt, the started a huge industry. Suddenly their was enough food to feed everyone. Even the people required to build the pyramids. In the 1600's the animals were taken to the Americas where there was no wheat and no cattle. Americans consume 20 million tons of wheat a year.
Whats more important is the hand they've been dealt. Their locations. They didn't develop the same way and the Europeans and the Americans because they didn't have the same items and weren't dealt the same card. New Guinea has been getting developed by younger New Guineans trying to catch up to the rest of the world.
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