Analyze human impact on environment throughout time.
Humans in the beginning of the foraging era had a limited impact on the environment but the impact was becoming bigger and bigger. They relied on their natural surroundings for survival. Whenever humans colonize lands, the land’s animals disappear. As a matter of fact, archaeologists pinpoint the dates of these extinctions more precisely and the extinctions appear to coincide with the first arrival of modern humans.(page 28) The foragers’ method of “fire-stick farming” also resulted environmental impacts. Fire-stick farming created new and mixed plant and animal species.(page 28) During the agrarian era, agriculture had a significant human impact on the natural environment. It modified the …show more content…
It permitted people to survive much more than the foraging era did. New techniques and technology developed allowing humans to multiply by increasing their range and to live within a given range.(page 34) It allowed people to be able to adapt more to their land. “The spread of agriculture had to await new techniques such as irrigation or new crops better adapted to the regions of new settlements.”(page 40) Agriculture increased the rate of population. Because agriculture was spreading, it forced communities to generate consistent innovations on buildings, warfare, record keeping, transportation science, and arts and this caused a rapid demographic growth.(page 44) “During the agrarian era, population rose from 6,000,000 ten thousand years ago to 770,000,000 in 1750.”(page …show more content…
For example, communication between different cultures and civilizations. Instead of knowledge dying within each person/group, the knowledge was passed around. It allowed other people and future generations to learn more about technology and to develop/improve their technology. According to This Fleeting World, “Collective learning explains the exceptional ability of humans to adapt to changing environments and changing circumstances.”(page 17) Agriculture also has a big influence in technology. New environments and crops caused people to develop and learn more ideas about what they 're doing. “Most improvements arose from small changes in the handling of particular crop, such as earlier or later planting.”(page 41) “Productivity arose from whole clusters of innovation that appeared in many environments.”(page 42) Agriculture lead to a large amount of increase in population(page 44), which leads to an increase technologies in different regions like building, warfare, transportation, and science and the arts.(page
Humans in the beginning of the foraging era had a limited impact on the environment but the impact was becoming bigger and bigger. They relied on their natural surroundings for survival. Whenever humans colonize lands, the land’s animals disappear. As a matter of fact, archaeologists pinpoint the dates of these extinctions more precisely and the extinctions appear to coincide with the first arrival of modern humans.(page 28) The foragers’ method of “fire-stick farming” also resulted environmental impacts. Fire-stick farming created new and mixed plant and animal species.(page 28) During the agrarian era, agriculture had a significant human impact on the natural environment. It modified the …show more content…
It permitted people to survive much more than the foraging era did. New techniques and technology developed allowing humans to multiply by increasing their range and to live within a given range.(page 34) It allowed people to be able to adapt more to their land. “The spread of agriculture had to await new techniques such as irrigation or new crops better adapted to the regions of new settlements.”(page 40) Agriculture increased the rate of population. Because agriculture was spreading, it forced communities to generate consistent innovations on buildings, warfare, record keeping, transportation science, and arts and this caused a rapid demographic growth.(page 44) “During the agrarian era, population rose from 6,000,000 ten thousand years ago to 770,000,000 in 1750.”(page …show more content…
For example, communication between different cultures and civilizations. Instead of knowledge dying within each person/group, the knowledge was passed around. It allowed other people and future generations to learn more about technology and to develop/improve their technology. According to This Fleeting World, “Collective learning explains the exceptional ability of humans to adapt to changing environments and changing circumstances.”(page 17) Agriculture also has a big influence in technology. New environments and crops caused people to develop and learn more ideas about what they 're doing. “Most improvements arose from small changes in the handling of particular crop, such as earlier or later planting.”(page 41) “Productivity arose from whole clusters of innovation that appeared in many environments.”(page 42) Agriculture lead to a large amount of increase in population(page 44), which leads to an increase technologies in different regions like building, warfare, transportation, and science and the arts.(page