2. Paragraph For Test How does geography impact the development of society?
Topic sentence: Geography impacts the development of society in many ways.
Main idea 1: First, environment affects where people live.
Support: Early people settled by rivers because of its resources.
Main idea 2: Second, geography influenced early culture.
Support: People made things based on what they needed to survive depending on where they lived.
Main idea 3: Lastly, geography influences history.
Support: Geography causes weather-related problems such as floods and food shortages.
Concluding sentence: Geography plays a very important role in the development of civilizations.