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. Wheat is easier to harvest so europeans have more time to build houses and experiment but with
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depending on your climate‚ your food availability is going to change. Your food will change how your civilization is made or how developed it is. In the Fertile Crescent‚ the people were able to grow wheat. Wheat is very high in protein and can be stored for a long time. Collecting it is not very time or energy consuming‚ so the people in the Fertile Crescent have some free time to work on other things. They were able to develop specialists. In Papua New Guinea‚ they grow sago instead. Sago is low in protein
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Civilization - Indus River Ancient China - Huang He (Yellow) River Mesopotmia Flat plain known as Mesopotamia lies between the two rivers in SW Asia(Middle East) . Because of this region’s shape and the richness of its soil(silt) it is called the Fertile Crescent‚ the rivers flood unpredictably. Sumerians were first to settle in this region‚ attracted by the silt. Disadvantages / Environmental Challenges 1. Unpredictable flooding / dry summer months 2. No natural barriers for protection 3. Limited natural
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The end of World War I had a powerful impact on the world. This was because the War not only changed how war was fought with the use of technology such as poisonous gases‚ tanks and machine guns. The War also changed the power structure of Europe due to the collapse of the British Empire because of debt‚ The Bolsheviks overthrowing Czar Nicholas of Russia thus ending the Russian Empire‚ the end of the Ottoman Empire and the Sykes-Picot Treaty which redrew the borders of the Middle East and has resulted
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Features have affected human settlement in the Middle East with the five main physical regions like the Northern Tier‚ Arabian Peninsula‚ Fertile Crescent‚ Nile Valley‚ and the Maghreb. The Northern Tier stretches across Turkey and Iran with a region of plateaus. In the west lies the Anatolian plateau ringed with the Pontic and Taurus mountains. The Anatolian has fertile soil so there is a large population. The Anatolian plateau is located in Asia Minor‚ large peninsula that connects Asia to Europe. The
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in the Fertile Crescent were growing wheat with ease‚ civilizations like Papua New Guinea were stuck with the dreadful sago trees.
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11-15: From Brisco: 11. Who coined the phrase‚ “Fertile Crescent?” James Breasted 12. What was a “land bridge” that linked two great cultural centers? Palestine 13-14. What were the two great cultural centers it linked? Egypt & Mesopotamia 15. The most important highway system in the biblical land is called
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agriculture late in 10‚000 BC after the end of the Ice Age. It was the beginning of The Fertile Crescent and based settlement‚ were the first tribe known as “Abu Hureyra” had the ability to grow their own food. In essence‚ they began to grow grasses for the cultivation of grains such as: wheat‚ barley‚ rice‚ lentils‚ and peas. They also began the raise of livestock such as sheep‚ and goats. The Fertile Crescent was the beginning of a huge transition that began spreading westward. Furthermore‚ many
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(Document 4). Mesopotamia was also a civilization that was impacted by its geographic features. The Fertile Crescent was a main part of the Mesopotamian society. It helped with the development of the Mesopotamian society because the crops farmed in the Fertile Crescent could be traded with other countries for goods that the Mesopotamians could not provide for themselves. The Fertile Crescent was the reason that civilizations arose in Mesopotamia. This occurred because it opened up more transportation
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longevity in age when illness killed most people before age thirty. Climate and Geography played a very important role in settlement of the Paleolithic period ‚ the weather increased the amount of wild grains people could gather in the foothills of the fertile cresecent. The Paleolithic hunter gatherers settled where the wild grains grew and where animals gazed. After a period of time as people became to master new skills such as
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