How Does Geography Affect The People Of Papua New Guinea?

Forty-eight years ago today, in the year of 1969, the people of Papua New Guinea were still using stone tools. Whereas, families in the U.S. were watching on television as their countryman were landing on the moon. There has to be a reason for the people of Papua New Guinea using stone tools in the modern age, while countries like the U.S. are more advanced in technology and this country hasn’t been around as long as countries in Europe and Africa. Geography is the reason of the inequality around the world. Geography has caused inequality between civilizations and has given some civilizations an advantage over others. Because of these advantages, this resulted in the decimation and the appropriation of other civilizations resources. There are four main factors that allowed civilizations to have …show more content…
Geography also affects the ability to grow crops because the region could be too elevated, mountainous, or rocky to grow crops or the climate could be too wet or too dry. Papua New Guinea is located in the tropics in the South Pacific and the region is very wet. There are few native plants around the island nation that are edible or can be domesticated. The primary food source in the region is the sago tree. The sago tree poses multiple challenges as it is tough to harvest. The processing of the tree often takes around several people three to four days to turn the sago into food. The sago doesn’t last a week until it goes bad, and with all the hard work and effort to turn the sago tree into food, you get left with a deficit of food and calories. The people of Papua New Guinea were unable to develop very much because they didn’t have the time to focus on developing. They were busy hunting and gathering trying to get enough food to meet their human needs! The Fertile Crescent on the other hand, is located in a semiarid region in the Middle East. The region is around thirty-five degrees North of the Equator. The primary food