Ancient World Changes

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Societies have changed from the Ancient world to the Modern world by Farming, Trading, Migration and Settlement. Although there are many more ways Societies have changed but these are the main ways. Societies changed because of inventions, the more inventions, and the easier life became until the modern world appeared.

Migration and Population was an important thing in the Ancient world because the more people that migrated into a country, the more the population grew consequently, the more resources were needed like food, water and housing, then more jobs were needed. The higher the population grew, the more migration appeared, in addition of this happening more civilisation happened.

Farming and trade were also important in the Ancient world as the more people the more food was needed, as a result people began to migrate, they all stayed between the two tropics since between the two tropics there is more rainfall, resulting in more crops and food. As a matter of fact with trading came inventions for instance cars and motor vehicles to help humans transport goods.
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If the law was broken there were very severe punishments for you offence, the punishments could be getting dragged by horses, getting quartered (being cut into four part) or getting your head chopped off. So clearly the punishment was a lot worse than now.

In conclusion, the Ancient world has changed a fair bit compared to the modern world. The ancient world is a lot more harsh then the modern world but, in the modern world our laws are much more complex as we have inventions like motor vehicles, weapons and

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