Guns, Germs and Steel

An element in the book in terms of material space/objects affecting culture is geography. Especially focusing on the individuals who live in certain areas- how and where a group of people live together to produce food.  Food was a population boost. Different communities focused on how many individuals could they sustain. The more people that populated the communities, the more specially skilled people they had which eventually leads to the development of technology.  The author talks about how food production leads to the development to writing. It is something we have to invent, learn, and produced.  It allows people to document things that has previously happened. The author talks a lot about animals and how they were used and perceived to humans. He focused on a point when people from Africa move to different continents. When humans populated certain parts where animals had never seen them before, the animals didn't know what to do. The humans would kill them off. Later on in the book he also talks about animal domestication for several uses such as warfare.