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Talent 21 Social Studies 2012. How did humans directly impact the environment? By: Alana Miskovic. This year for talent 21 I will be telling you about 7 different early civilizations. f rom this power point you will learn about how early civilizations impacted the environment. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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• This year for talent 21 I will be telling you about 7 different early civilizations.
• from this power point you will learn about how early civilizations impacted the environment.
• This power point is in order of the times the civilizations.
After glacier age• Couldn’t
reproduce• they were
attacked (animals)
• The humans impacted the early environment because with the new dry land, the fire caught and spread more rapidly.
Early man • Forest fires caused
by campfires were very hazardous and life threatening.
• The fire took down wild life
• The fires damaged vegetation.
• Over hunting caused animals to die out.
Early farmers• Farmers used irrigation
systems to water their crops.
• They used them when a source of water was far away.
• Most today farmers use tractors to plow the dirt but back then, they used oxen.
Mesopotamia • Farmed crops• 110 degree
temperatures• Seasonal flooding• Farmers learned
how to control the flooding in order to keep the crops alive.
Egypt • Daily life in the
Egypt revolved around the Nile and when the flooding would fertilize their crops and provide food for their family.
• Trading• Building
• Greece had a lot of beaches
• Sometimes Greeks turn to piracy
• Greece was not always a easy place to live in.
• The soil wasn’t rich and there wasn’t enough fresh water.
• The Greeks also started the Olympics.
Greece
Rome
• The warm air moved around the building through spaces under floors and between the walls.
• Salt flats because salt was valuable
• Used the water to their advantages in order to trade
• The heating systems, which was kept going by slaves, who kept a fire blazing in a furnace to heat warm air.