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Human Interaction With The Environment

This exploration outlines how humans have interacted with and adapted to their environment throughout history, beginning with the Paleolithic era where hunters and gatherers relied on basic tools for survival. It covers the transition to agriculture, featuring the domestication of plants and animals, and techniques like slash-and-burn farming and irrigation in Mesopotamia. The advancements in writing through clay tablets and hieroglyphs, as well as trade and cultural borrowing in ancient societies like Egypt and Greece, highlight the complexities of human-environment interaction over time.

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Human Interaction With The Environment

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  1. Human Interaction With The Environment Examples of how human have interacted with change with the environment through the ages.

  2. Early Man • Paleolithic era-The Paleolithic era, meaning "Old Stone Age” • Hunters and gathers-the men hunted and the women gathered things such as berry's • Technology- the technology was tools and weapons for food

  3. Farmers and City Dwellers • Domesticate-taming animals and plants such as oxen's, horses, and grape vines. • Slash and Burn Farming- cut trees and then burn them to clear the land • Irrigation- making water where you want it to go such as irrigation ditches

  4. Mesopotamia • Trade- the people who lived in Mesopotamia needed to trade with neighboring countries in order to acquire the resources they needed to live. • Clay Tablets- clay and a stylus(writing utensil) to write with • Bronze- tin and copper mixed together and makes bronze, good for weapons

  5. Egypt • Papyrus- plant that was used for writing the Egyptians would strip the papyrus and layer it to make paper • Rosetta stone- write on rosette stone with hieroglyphs • Hieroglyphs- pictures that would tell a story (a type of writing that the Egyptians would use)

  6. Greece • Farmers- with out farmers there will be no food • Cultural Borrowing- the process by which a culture takes ideas from other cultures • Acropolis- a fort built on top of a hill

  7. Rome • Road- way on land between two places • Concrete- is a composite construction material composed primarily of aggregate, cement and water • Aqueducts- is a water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water

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