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 …show more content…
Even though there are many animals there are only a few percentage that can be domesticated, and different types of animals can only live in certain places. Giving the possibility that some civilization will have many animals and others very little or none. The animals have to have a good disposition and they can’t have the tendency to panic. If they do the animal can be harmful to the owner. The animal has to have a quick growth rate and cannot have trouble breeding wild captive. If the animal has a slow growth rate the animal will not be able to reproduce until an older age or it won't be able to do as much because their body is not fully grown. The animals preferably have to be herbivores. It is too expensive to own a carnivore because you have to feed the carnivore but you also have to feed and raise the animals you feed it. Domesticated animals can provide a lot for a civilization, and can really help a civilization develop. If a civilization does not have domesticated animals they can’t settle in one place, it takes a lot of work and time to hunt, and there’s no guarantee there is going to be food. The animals can provide hide and hair,meat, milk, dung, and labor. Their hide and hair was used for warmth and shelter, their meat and milk for food and drinks, and their dung for fertilizer to help the crops grow faster and better. The animals were also used for work. They were …show more content…
Exposure to diseases affects the development of civilizations in a positive and negative way. Animals help you get immunity to diseases but not all people had animals due to their location. Immunity to diseases helped a civilization dominated countries without immunity. The Spanish and other Europeans were exposed to diseases because they had domesticated animals, and drank their milk and were exposed to them every day. This built up their immune system and they became immune to diseases like smallpox. Many of the other civilizations were not immune to diseases because they didn’t have animals to get immunity from. The Incas did have the llama but they did not have close contact with them so, they didnt built an immunity. So when the Spanish attacked the Incas not only did they had steel but they brought smallpox with them. They spread it to the Incas, without even knowing it, and they became infected and eventually died. When it came time for them to fight they were to weak so it allowed the Spanish to conquer them and their land. Since the Spanish lived where they were able to domesticate animals, which gave them immunity to smallpox, it allowed them to spread it to the incas and conquer