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My Name Is Elizabeth. This Is My Social Studies Talent 21 Project.. My project is about how ancient people affect their environments and left their ecological footprint.

AFTER GLACIER AGEIn about 12,000 years ago climatic changes altered environments around the world.

Temps began to rise glacier started to melt.

Oceans rose and covered the old coastlines as well as land bridges.

Large ice age animals gradually disappeared, while smaller animals flourished.

EARLY MAN

humans are believed to have modified the climate through deforestation and cultivation of new plants

Ancient people caused warming is small compared to modern day warming.

Early Men Hunted Big Animals Like Wooly Mammoth.

EARLY FARMERS

Early famers planted wheat and bran.

Early famers had to deal with droughts that is a time period with rain.

Famers in the southwestern Asia with thick forests used slash-and-burning farming to prepare the soil for planting.

MESOPOTAMIA

THE NILE RIVER RAN THROUGH MESOPOTAMIA.

THEY BUILT ZIGGURAUTE

THE NILE RIVER PROVIDED A LOT OF IRRAGATION.

EGYPT

Egyptians affected the environment when they would the mined a lot of gold and copper that made damage to the earth

Developed more civilities which damage some earth.

They would cut wood to make weapons.

GREECE

There used to be a lot of trees on the hillsides of Greece but now most of those trees are cut down.

Greece built extensive cities with sewers and garbage tips.

They fished the seas and smelted copper, gold and iron.

ROME

Romans cut down 50% of Spain’s forests

Greeks logged forests for timber and firewood, drained swamps for farmland and built terraces for crops.

They would kill wild animals.

CONCLUSIONIn conclusion ancient people did some things

that we still do today in modern time. As a example we still use their slash-and-burn method. Also we still cut down trees like they did in Spain. Were are also different. Today romans aren’t so mean. I conclusion people back than were way more careful back then.