ENVS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Fathom, Warini, Arianism
19 Nov 2015
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Environmental history i to the rise of cities. Environmental history i -- to the rise of cities. (2009). The domestication of plants and animals, cities and towns, and in the rise of the hydraulic civilization of. Culture is the human being impact and change in the environmental for all kinds of reasons. Horticulture is the vegetable gardening using digging sticks or hoes, and in these early societies is associated w/ what is sometimes called slash-and-burn or swidden forestry. Quasi-nomadic they move around, but they move from familiar place to familiar place. Agrarian civilizations are cities and societies that grew out of, and remained completely dependent on, farming as the primary resource. Taxes and tributes that means not only bureaucracy, but armies, tax gatherers, and enforcers. Environmental history i to the rise of cities: introduction. The relationship b/w the environment and human history is complex, and is not simply about one- way cause and effect.
