Guns, Germs, & Steel!!

Recap
What i have learned on our earth's geography is that there are many people around the world in countries that are going through poverty. There counrty is so poor and they don't have the resources for food or anything. The europeans have much more that the countries in africa. Another little fact I learned from the movie is 168 Spanish conquistadors defeated an Imperial Inca army of 80,000 in 1532, and set a pattern of European conquest which would continue right up to the present day.

Revisit
Burundi

It is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa. Burundi is governed as a presidential representative democratic republic. Burundi has a low gross domestic product largely due to civil wars, corruption, poor access to education, and the effects of HIV/AIDS. Burundi is densely populated. Cobalt and copper are among Burundi's natural resources. Some of Burundi's main exports include coffee and sugar. On October 20, 1924, Burundi officially became a part of the Belgian colonial empire and was known as Ruanda-Urundi, and consisted of Rwanda and Burundi. On October 4, 1943, powers were split in the legislative division of Burundi's government between chiefdoms and lower chiefdoms. Chiefdoms were in charge of land, and lower sub-chiefdoms were established. Native authorities also had powers. In 1948, Belgium allowed the region to form political parties. These factions would be one of the main influences for Burundi's independence from Belgium.

Resources:

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad25

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107374.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1068873.stm

http://www.who.int/countries/bdi/en/

Reflect

I hate the geographic situtaions that most countries have. I hate how some countries have more than enough resources and stuff like that. When other countries have squat. I wish the world had an equal ammount of resources all over. Or atleast enough to support the size of each country. Although, it does kind of depend on the population size of the country. Like if you have enough resources for the size of about 3 million people, and you have about 9 million, then your gonna have a problem, becasue how are you supposed to suppport all of those people when you don't even have half the ammount of resources you need? Well, yeah it has some what to do with the population sisze, thats my opinion.

Resources:

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/episode1.html

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2122.html