Leaders must maintain order in there land. Three of the most sufficient ways to maintain order are discipline, public appearance, and security. It's important to keep order in a sufficient way, because if you don't your land, home or class room will be full of chaos and turmoil.

Discipline not only shows that you have the power or authority to punish people, but it also teaches citizens, offspring, or students that if they commit a crime, not do there chores, or cheat on a test that it comes with a price. If they learn that then they won't do it and it will keep your empire, class room, or home out of turmoil. Public appearance allows you to give a good example towards your subjects. It also shows (if your a king or president) that you also have to pay your taxes, drop your kids off, obey the law ect. If they know you have to do all of this too then so will they. And most importantly security. Your subjects need to know that you have everything under control. It's not a matter of alarms and sensers it's about peace of mind and trust. One major thing people worry about today is if our country will go even more into chaos then it already is. Good public appearances help this, such as some by Obama with him talking about how to clean up this mess with proof that we can gives us peace of mind.

These three things are very important in empires, homes and of course class rooms.

  "Geographical luck and circumstance." This is Jareld Diamonds thesis. His response to Yalli's question which was, "Why is that you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little cargo?" It seems like a simple question, but there is alot behind it. It can go all the way back their ancestors. 

About 13,000 years ago people gathered in the middle east (Mesopatamia) in a spot they call the Fertile creasent. Which is in present day Iraq. Before the last ice age it was a perfect spot for agriculture, because it was fertile. I agree with Diamond. I think that the reason why New uineans have to eat sago tree and not get the nutrition (and also the reason behind Yalli's question) is because they have to plant things that don't need alot of sun, because they are in the forest. If you try to plant somthing that needs sun light, in the middle of a rain forest it's going to work.

 

I think that there are ups and downs to everything. I think that agriculture and farming have many disadvantages, such as: what would happen if your crops died and that's how you and your family make money or that's all of your food for a while? And there's also the problem that nothing can be 100% Garanteed. There are many advantages though, such as: The satisfaction of having planting your own food, and I think that it must feel safer to have your food (and money) write there in your own back yard, instead of having to look for it.