Human Interaction With The Environment

1. Human Interaction With The Environment Examples of how human have interacted with change with the environment through the ages.

2. Early Man • Paleolithic era-The Paleolithic era, meaning "Old Stone Age” • Hunters and gathers-the men hunted and the women gathered things such as berry's • Technology- the technology was tools and weapons for food

3. Farmers and City Dwellers • Domesticate-taming animals and plants such as oxen's, horses, and grape vines. • Slash and Burn Farming- cut trees and then burn them to clear the land • Irrigation- making water where you want it to go such as irrigation ditches

4. Mesopotamia • Trade- the people who lived in Mesopotamia needed to trade with neighboring countries in order to acquire the resources they needed to live. • Clay Tablets- clay and a stylus(writing utensil) to write with • Bronze- tin and copper mixed together and makes bronze, good for weapons

5. Egypt • Papyrus- plant that was used for writing the Egyptians would strip the papyrus and layer it to make paper • Rosetta stone- write on rosette stone with hieroglyphs • Hieroglyphs- pictures that would tell a story (a type of writing that the Egyptians would use)

6. Greece • Farmers- with out farmers there will be no food • Cultural Borrowing- the process by which a culture takes ideas from other cultures • Acropolis- a fort built on top of a hill

7. Rome • Road- way on land between two places • Concrete- is a composite construction material composed primarily of aggregate, cement and water • Aqueducts- is a water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water