How did Humans directly impact their Environment?

Justice S. Ross Per.5

Talent 21 project of 2012

Into

The purpose of this project was to find out how did humans directly impact their environment? As I was researching about different countries, I found out that each country impacted their environment in different ways.

Early Humans

Hunters and Gathers• 12,000 years ago the

first hunters and gathers hunters appeared.

• Traditionally males were hunters and females were gathers.

• The females gathered fruits and nuts and male hunted animals such as rabbits.

Fire• When Early humans

discovered fire they used it to cook their food.

• They started it by banging to rocks together and make a spark.

Adapting • When the Ice Age ended

the land became warmer and Early Humans started to adapt to the environment.

• They settled in large groups called society.

Early Farmers

Irrigation• The land and soil

determined weather the crops will grow or not.

Adapting to change• When the last ice age

ended climate changes affected the environment.

• To survive they had to learn to adapt to their physical environment.

• They also, saw animals and plants they never seen before.

• They also, stopped over hunting.

Agriculture Revolution • The people of

southwestern Asia began to capture sheep and goats and kept them in pens.

• Over time, these penned animals became tame and people could herd them in pastures.

Major river systems

• The earliest civilizations developed in the valleys four major river systems.

• The early people learned to grow surpluses of crop and they had to develop new agricultural techniques.

Ubaid culture• The people of the Ubaid

culture lived simply, and raised enough crops.

• They also, lived in huts made of reeds.

• In addition, the people developed a new more – advance irrigation system.

City to civilizations• By 400 B.C. Farming

villages had spread in southern Mesopotamia.

• Using their agriculture techniques to create food.

Egypt

Nile

• Early Egyptians would settle along the Nile to grow crops such as wheat and barley.

• Later, in the year 4,000 B.C. farming villages started to settle along the Nile river near the Delta to the first cataract.

Papyrus• Papyrus was most

comely used for paper.• However, they would

use the reeds to built boats and the roots for fuel.

• Dry papyrus are used to create mattresses, mat, rope, sandals and baskets.

Civil War

• In the year of 2181 B.C. Egypt was in their first Civil war.

• As a result to the war farmland and crops were destroyed.

• Also, the Egypt wasn’t ruled by one king anymore.

• Later, in 2040 B.C. Egypt was reunited.

Greece

Poseidon• The Ancient Greeks had a

belief the Poseidon, the Sea God watched over the sailors and their boats when their on the sea.

Seas• When the Ancient Greece lived

near the sea, the sea provided fish and made it easier to hike mountains.

• Therefore, they started to live near the sea.

Land• Greece is mostly made

up of mountains. • Which makes it hard for

them to see the enemy doing war.

Rome

Seven Hills • Some of the mountains in

the mountain range called Apennines use to be volcanoes .

• When they erupted, the ashes enriched the soil.

A Cultural Mix• When the Hispanics and

the Italians settled on the Italian Peninsula and the Latin villages.

• The Etruscans and Greeks setted up trade routes.

Etruscan Rule • When Tarquiniues Priscus

and the next king ‘s they build large project, added walls that protected the city, paved Rome’s streets, and build a sewer system.

Conclusion

Without the past who we wouldn’t have nothing to build off of for the future. It took many centuries to get where we are today.