Human interaction with the environment

1. Examples of how humans have interacted and changed the environment through the ages Human interaction with the environment

2. Early Man • Paleolithic Era – when the first chipped stone tools began • Migration – moving from one place to another to find more shelter, food, or new climates • Hunting and Gathering – spend each day searching for food, or gathering food Stone Tools – Paleolithic Era

3. Farmers and City Dwellers • Slash and Burn Farming – clearing the trees and brush by burning the trees • Domestication – to tame animals to do what was needed to be done. • Surplus – extra supply of seeds to use for next season Slash-and-burn-farming

4. Mesopotamia • Standing-Army – a permanent army of paid soldiers • Irrigation – supplying dry land with water by ditches in the ground • Cuneiform – made of wedge shaped symbols, each of the 700 symbols stand for different syllables Cuneiform

5. Egypt • Pyramid – Large stone structures used as tombs for Egyptian rulers. • Hieroglyphics – a writing system made up of pictures and different symbols • Mummification – the process in which the body was being prepared for the afterlife Pyramids

6. Greece • Hoplite – heavily armed infantry soldiers • Myth – stories that were told about how the actions of gods affected the lives of people. • Cultural borrowing – process in which one culture takes ideas from another culture. Hoplite

7. Rome • Forum – a public square where the Romans exchanged goods and ideas. • Aqueduct – a system of bridges and canals that carries water. Built for baths and drinking. • Coliseum – place where people could sit and watch entertainment; killing animals or people killing each other Aqueduct