Western civ. today went way better than last. Mr. Schick could get his volume to work on Guns, Germs, and Steel, so luke had to give him his laptop and he got it working. We are currently watching the domesticated animals part of the movie. There are 2 million wild species in the world. He narrowed down the list of animals that were over 100 pounds and I was shocked. It was only 148 but the number of those that were domesticated is ; the cow, the llama, the horse, sheep, two species of camels, yak, mathon, donkey, goats, pigs, water buffalo, reindeer, and cattle. It took humans 10,000 years to domesticate these animals.