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Human interactions with the environment

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Explore the evolution of human interactions with the environment from the Paleolithic era to the rise of ancient civilizations. This journey begins with early humans as hunter-gatherers, transitioning to farming practices that allowed for surplus food production and the domestication of plants and animals. Discover how the development of government systems, the invention of writing (cuneiform), and trade were pivotal in cities like Mesopotamia and Egypt. Learn about iconic structures like the pyramids and the Colosseum, and their significance in the context of human progress.

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Human interactions with the environment

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  1. Human interactions with the environment Gabriela Johnson

  2. Early man • Paleolithic era • Stone age. • Migration • Moving from one place to another. • Hunting • Searching for food. • Gathering • Collecting food.

  3. Farmers and city dwellers • Plow • Surplus • Extra supplies of food • Domesticate • To tame plants or animals for human use. • Plow • A tool used to cut, lift, or turn over soil. • Government • An organized system of leaders and laws.

  4. Mesopotamia • cuneiform • Zigguart • The largest and tallest temple in every Sumerian city-state. • Cuneiform • A writing system based on wedge-shaped symbols. • Trade • Giving up of one thing to get another. • Bronze • A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.

  5. Egypt • k • the Nile river • The worlds longest river. • Papyrus • A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. • After life • Life after death. • Pyramid • A structure that served as tombs for Egyptian ruler.

  6. Greece • farmers • Farmers • A person who operates a farm or cultivates land. • Myth • A traditional legendary story. • Trade • The act of process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities. • Peninsula • An area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the main land.

  7. Rome • Colosseum • Colosseum • An ancient amphitheater in Rome. • Road • A long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc.. • Concrete • Formed by coalescence of separate particles into a mass, united in a coagulated, condense, or solid mass or state. • Forum • The market place or public square of an ancient Rome city, the center of judicial and business affairs.

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