Diamond explains how geography shaped human migration, not simply by making travel difficult, but by how climates affect where domestic able animals can easily travel and where crops can ideally grow easily due to the sun. Seasonally variable climate at high latitude poses more diverse challenges than does a seasonally constant tropical climate. Cold climates require one to be more technologically inventive to survive, because one must build a warm home and make warm clothing. Whereas one can survive in the tropics with simpler housing and no clothing. The first step towards civilization is the move from hunter-gatherer to agriculture with the domestication and farming of wild crops and animals. Agricultural production leads to food surpluses and this in turn supports sedentary societies, rapid population growth, and specialization of labor. Large societies tend to develop ruling classes and supporting bureaucracies, which leads in turn to the organization of empires. Although agriculture arose in several parts of the…
This all helped the europeans with civilizations and conquering other countries and the Spanish were more powerful. Civilizations is affected by the climate and the climate affects your food surplus. The Fertile Crescent was relying on wheat because the climate did not change much. Wheat is different in many ways like wheat can be stored for at least 3 years compared unlike sago has to be eaten fast or it well be bad.…
Climate, wealth and power were some of the things that had a huge impact on how our history unfolded. The climate affects different cultures…
Climate has been a major factor in determining where people settled. Peopled settled in areas that has climates that would…
Geography is broken down into two main fields: physical geography and human geography, each field has further subdivisions as well. Physical geography focuses on the natural environment and how a region’s climate, topography, organisms, and natural processes interact. While human geographers study the processes and patterns that effect human society. Although the fields seem very different there are quite a few areas of overlap. Geographers often make connections between human culture and society and the effects that societal changes may have on the natural environment. For this reason geography has been called “the bridge between the human and the physical…
1. Geography and climate play a major role in the development of early human societies, for instance, Middle Eastern grains did not grow at all in the humidity of equatorial West Africa. Rather than cultivating grains, the geography and climate limitations made it more suitable to grow rice, pearl millet, and sorghum in West Africa. The barriers that the environment set led to the diversity of human culture and diets based on the condition of the weather correlating with their geological position. With the climate favoring agriculture, scientists believe that early humans abandoned foraging due to global warming, and began to farm instead. The benefits of cultivating crops helped…
Geography plays a big role in history because the geography of a place resembles where the people have lived or settled for many years. Places have different terrains and climates like deserts, oceans, forests, and more. Back in the Stone Age, thousands of years ago, people didn’t survive very long because of their climates and landscape. Drastically over the years, the world has been changing and it is nothing like it was hundreds and thousands of years ago.…
Over the last century global temperatures have increased rapidly, and this period has been called global warming. However many have disputed how this rapid increase in the change in the temperature have been brought about. There is a general agreement among scientists that the changes in the climate over the last century are as a result of human activities. They have reached this consensus as they have been able to link the sudden change in rate of the temperature increase to the development of industrial activities beginning with the industrial revolution. The industrial activities that our modern civilisation depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels causing a rise in the amount of greenhouse gases that insulate the Earth. These extra emissions of greenhouse gases have led to a thicker layer of greenhouse gases present in the Earth’s atmosphere. The main causes of this rise in greenhouse gas emission are fossil fuels. The burning of these fossil fuels has allowed us to develop, both economically and technologically, which in turn has enabled us to advance as a civilisation. However the use of these fossil fuels has…
Geography was, and is, a very important part of civilization. Geography is important to our civilizations today for building, location, and transportation. Back in 2500-1500 BCE, when the Indus River Valley tribe lived, they built all of their towns on the Indus River. Water was a source of life. A lake could be a place to do laundry, to take a bath, and to drink out of. It was also important because it meant that the ground around it was well watered and great for growing crops. The Indus people lived on what is called the Indian sub-continent since that stretch of land juts out from the country of India. They had natural boundaries such as mountains, rivers, and dry plains like deserts.…
“Continents that are spread out in an East – West direction, such as Eurasia, had a developmental advantage because of the ease with which crops, animals, ideas and technologies could spread between areas of similar latitude. North – south direction such as the Americas, had an inherent climate disadvantage. Any crops, animals, ideas and technologies had to travel through dramatic change of climate conditions” (Prososki; “The Story of The Shapes of the…
Today, the three main fossil fuels that are in demand are oil, coal and natural gas. These fossil fuels are prevalent because they are efficient to burn, ship, and store based on high energy content. Fossil fuels also provide for our daily needs such as transportation, heating, cooking and electricity. Based on our current rates of consumption, we will use up the Earth’s store of fossil fuels faster than created therefore making it a nonrenewable source of energy. After fossil fuels are created and depleted, they cannot be replaced in our civilization. This extremely long process takes thousands of years and if we were to replenish the depleted fossil fuels it would take millions of years.…
The way the continents were spread out helped some countries, but isolated others. Europe and Asia, or Eurasia, was spread out from east to west and it helped people spread crops, animals, ideas, and technologies because these areas were of the similar latitude. The Americas were spread out in a north to south direction and required harsh travel that no one really bothered doing. The Fertile Crescent was in the perfect location. The geographic luck brought wild crops and wild animals to this location. The humans that lived there used this to their advantage by altering the cycle of crops and domesticating animals for their needs. To change the cycle of crops, humans had to get the best seeds and plant them on their land. They used the domesticated animals for many things including their meat, milk, fur, and their power. An animal’s power can plow a field much faster and only requires about two people to help the animal. With fields producing more agricultural products, some people started leaving the fields behind, and started developing new skills. The earliest evidence for this is found at the Fertile Crescent. These people started building larger and…
Physical features and where people were located affected how civilizations developed in North America. According to Guns, Germs and Steel where civilizations were located I the world affected what food you had witch changed their way of life. Jared Diamond talks about how natives to New Guinea have access to the Saco tree while people in the Middle East had access to wheat and barley. According to diamond’s theory the Middle East thrived more quickly because wheat was easier to store and process. While the Saco tree took three days to process and only lasted for three days. Therefore they were spending all of their time providing food while civilizations of the Middle East had time to do more things like provide more permanent shelter and discover new things that help them progress. It seemed like some civilizations like New Guinea were at a halt from progressing anymore, and it didn’t change over thousands of years, while civilizations from the Middle East and surrounding civilizations flourished. Food relates to physical features because based on your elevation (like if you were in the mountains) the climate changes and based on the different climate the different food you find and the different food you can grow. For example if you were in the rainforest you would find the Saco tree like in New Guinea, and in the plains you would find wheat and barley like found in the Middle East. Based on my experience from playing thrive I can conclude that depending on where your civilization was on the map, you received different variations of food and resource surplus and amount of it. For example if you were in a dominant coast you can harvest two fish per meeple but in a secondary coast you could only harvest one fish per meeple. The more food you got per meeple the more meeples you have left to do other things like build homes, and discover things to further develop your civilization. I think this applies in real life also with Europe…
Geographic location affects how a civilization can develop because depending on where you live the climate is different. This allows people in one location to grow better and more nutritious food…
Energy is an important part of our everyday lives. Energy can come in many different types, and forms it can be used for many different purposes. Energy has many different usages and can be converted from one form of usage to another form of usage depending on what the need is. One form of energy conversion is the use of food to supply people 's bodies with energy. Another form of energy is how coal is converted into electricity. Fuel is another form of energy that can be used for many different usages as well. Fuel is used for much different reason such as allowing our cars to function and our lawnmowers to cut grass. There are many different reasons why people use energy in the many different ways that we use it. Even though people rely on energy usage, some of the forms of energy we use are very harmful to the environment and even dangerous to ourselves. The harmful and dangerous fuels that we use can be changed to alternative methods of energy usage. There are two different types of alternative energy, which is known as renewable energy. Renewable energy is very resourceful and is able to be used because it is all around us there will not be a shortage of material and it is safer on every living thing and being. Energy and fuel usage just like everything else in the world has its advantages and disadvantages about using it. We must collectivity figure out which source of energy is right for everyone but for now we will find out which is best to use in your area.…