They’ve lived there for 3,000 years. The Mayans were very intelligent and they used many of their resources. One of their most common things was to grow crops through which began the “Slash and Burn Agriculture.” This was a process of cutting down vegetation in a plot of land by setting it on fire and using the ashes to provide nutrients to the soil for planting crops.
In addition, Hernando Cortes inspired and exchange of technology between Spain and the Native Americans with an example being the plough, which extremely helped farming. They also shared with the Native Americans hunting techniques such as the use of traps, muskets, axe-heads etc. which substantially improved hunting ability. Hernando can also be commended for introducing metals and irons into Mexico which aided the Spanish in conquering the Aztecs. Most importantly, Hernando was able to spread Christianity throughout the “New World” because the extent of his colonisation enabled Christianity to spread much more rapidly than earlier.
The Han Empire invaded northern Vietnam, Korea, and Xiongnu and subjected them to Han rule. The Roman Empire already had Italy, Greece, Syria, Gaul, and small outposts in North Africa and Anatolia, but by Augustus’s rule they got much of southeastern Europe and most of North Africa. Population increase wasn’t only by agriculture or colonization, but also voluntary migration. Large number of migrants from the countryside migrated to Rome for job opportunities, as construction provides work for hundreds of thousands of people. State ideology also increased the population.
Themes in US and World History Task # 1 Nina Valentin 1. Without the seasonal flooding of the Nile, hunter gatherers in the Predynastic period would never have settled into agricultural villages which would lead to the development of Egyptian culture (history.com). In Ancient Egyptian the majority of the population where farmers. The peasant population depended on the cyclical flooding of the Nile to fertilize the surrounding land for cultivation. Since the majority of the population was based in small farming villages along the Nile, agriculture was the basis for their economy (history.com).
They developed trade links to many countries and established lots of new herbs and plants. The Egyptians also found a new way of communication – writing. This is a key theme throughout Egyptian medicine as we can use written records as evidence for our theories on what actually happened after prehistoric times. Egypt was very different from prehistoric Isbister; it was a much more wealthy country and one of the most advanced civilisations known to the world. Its wealth was based on the River Nile and the fertile soil in which gave rich harvests of good crops, farming was so successful that even land owners in Egypt became very fortunate.
The Columbian Exchange was the massive interaction and exchange of ideas, foods, and culture, in essence everything was combined between Afro Eurasia and the Americas. It began in the period when the Europeans were exploring and colonizing. It occurred in the Americas. This is significant to history because they made totally new social orders in the Americas generally supplanting the numerous and fluctuated society that was prosperous. In addition to this, they brought new crops which allowed a European diet to diffuse through the lands.
Both the Mesopotamia and Egypt had huge populations leading to the development of government, rules, economic development and organizations. In a matter of time all the changes lead to where we are today. Imagine how much the people accomplished until now and how much change will the future
Mesopotamia is an example of an early river civilization because rivers were a big factor in the way that the earliest societies came about. Mesopotamians had to learn to adapt to the rivers and were creative enough to invent technology to help control the flow of water to irrigate crops which was essential for successful farming. Mesopotamia’s location near the two rivers is also beneficial because the soil becomes greatly deposited with mud and clay which allows for the development of building materials to make homes, residences, and marketplaces, etc. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers also supplies most of the civilizations drinking water. The civilization has “tilled the soil, built houses, and constructed irrigation systems, draining marshes, and digging canals, dikes, and ditches” (Ancient Civilizations, n.d.).
These technologies included new farming implements and methods, Railroads, steam engines, and the telegraph, to name a few. This was the beginning of what would come to be known as the Industrial Revolution. There are several reasons why the Industrial Revolution Began in England. Britain had many resources, including timber and steel and iron ore. It also had a stable government, which allowed for the people to begin industrializing in the first place, harbors for trade, a very large population resulting in a very large workforce, and many water ways throughout the country to transport materials and products as well as to use for water power at mills.
This was a great achievement not previously seen in other periods of time. Riley contends, “True cities were possible when these advanced Neolithic settlements used their increased agricultural productivity to create specialized artists, metalworkers, architects, writers, accountants, bureaucrats, physicians, and scientist, and to institutionalize their skills and achievements.” (48) The Sumerians were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago. These great early architects built the city of Ur which exemplified this urbanization to the fullest by building near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. By choosing this location the Sumerians “built irrigation systems that increased