The Essay:

             Jarred Diamond talks about geographic luck in the movie Guns, Germs, and Steel. Geographic Luck was served to the Fertile Crescent, South America, and in Europe. Not Papua New Guinea. The reason behind that is that the people of Papua New Guinea 11,000 years ago did not have animals, very many crops, or arable land.

               The people of the Fertile Crescent, Europe, and South America had domesticated animals, store able crops, fertile land, and crops that could be planted easily. Since the people of New Guinea had to find what they were going to eat and keep moving to new places on the island they never had time to come up with technology, or other possible jobs other than hunting and gathering. They only had pigs that were given to them from the Japanese. That is not enough for a country to thrive. Until the 60's or the 70's Papua New Guinea did not even know of electricity, crops, buildings, or even civilizations.

                 The people of New Guinea were not, not clever enough to build their own civilization. They were only dealt a bad area for arable land, and domesticated animals. So they never had time to build up on new technologies or even build their own civilization. All of these problems have put most of the New Guinean people in the "Stone Age".