Talent 21 Social Studies 2012

How did humans directly impact the environment?

By: Alana Miskovic

• This year for talent 21 I will be telling you about 7 different early civilizations.

• from this power point you will learn about how early civilizations impacted the environment.

• This power point is in order of the times the civilizations.

After glacier age• Couldn’t

reproduce• they were

attacked (animals)

• The humans impacted the early environment because with the new dry land, the fire caught and spread more rapidly.

Early man • Forest fires caused

by campfires were very hazardous and life threatening.

• The fire took down wild life

• The fires damaged vegetation.

• Over hunting caused animals to die out.

Early farmers• Farmers used irrigation

systems to water their crops.

• They used them when a source of water was far away.

• Most today farmers use tractors to plow the dirt but back then, they used oxen.

Mesopotamia • Farmed crops• 110 degree

temperatures• Seasonal flooding• Farmers learned

how to control the flooding in order to keep the crops alive.

Egypt • Daily life in the

Egypt revolved around the Nile and when the flooding would fertilize their crops and provide food for their family.

• Trading• Building

• Greece had a lot of beaches

• Sometimes Greeks turn to piracy

• Greece was not always a easy place to live in.

• The soil wasn’t rich and there wasn’t enough fresh water.

• The Greeks also started the Olympics.

Greece

Rome

• The warm air moved around the building through spaces under floors and between the walls.

• Salt flats because salt was valuable

• Used the water to their advantages in order to trade

• The heating systems, which was kept going by slaves, who kept a fire blazing in a furnace to heat warm air.

Conclusion • Have you learned anything now? In

the power point you just saw you learned how the ancient civilizations made an ecological footprint in the world we live in now.