GEO 221 Lecture 2: GEO 221 W2
Document Summary
This metaphor describes regions where humans first lived together in organized societies. Water impacted the development of each cradle . Connection between original cradles of civilization and current global populations is water. Agricultural surpluses (excess amount) allowed people to engage wide variety of activities. Goods exchanged for food products or traded for products from other villages. Trade was catalyst (allowed others to have leisure time and expand) for spread of ideas and spiritual beliefs and knowledge about how to make products, grow and use different crops, write, keep record. First settlements were near the following bodies of water: tigris and euphrates river (8000 3000 bce, mediterranean sea, red sea, nile (5500 bce, indus river (2500 bce, hwang he; yellow river (1800 bce) Delta: area of land formed at mouth of river where moving water suddenly slows and deposits suspended load of sand and silt: best feature of river, easiest to grow seeds, figured out how fertilizations work, moist area.
