Dbq Essay On Desert Life

Deserts they are not just piles of sand on this Earth. They are not waterless and lifeless they have both water and life. They also have incredible ecosystems. It is incredible how life can survive in such harsh conditions. They are majestic but they also affect everything around it and in it. Sometimes in a positive way or in a negative. Deserts also affected the past which is obvious. If the affect us today then they most definitely would of in the past. Deserts are dry that is obvious. Also of course there is evidence of this,“ The aridity of North Africa steppe turns to desolation in the Sahara.” (Document 1) Aridity means dry and steppe means a huge of land. Another example that the desert is very dry is that, “ The Sahara is seen as a wilderness of sand dunes.” (Document 1) I know it sounds like the Sahara is full of sand but it has other formations as well, “Yet it is a region with great massifs, extraordinary rock formations, lofty volcanic peaks, gravelly plains, shifty dunes and subterranean water. All of these examples prove that a desert has sand (obviously) and other formations that you wouldn't …show more content…
Since it took so long and most people died while attempting this it caused another problem. This was, “No communication between North Africa and the interior.” (Document 2) so this caused a huge no communication problem. So if there was an emergency and they needed all the help they could get what would they do. Nothing most of the time because it was a lost cause. Deserts now sound a little bad. But did you know that, “In the Nile Valley (Eastern Sahara) it was so crowded prime real estate there was difficult to come by.” (Sahara Deserts was once Lush and Populated, Bjorn Carey July 20, 2006 10:07 am ET) Not today though it was 8,000 year ago. The Sahara was like a mini Dubai everyone wanted to be