1. Agricultural Environments
Life of Early Peoples
Agricultural
Environments
(Teachers will need to explain the timeline and the location grid of the GHG.)
The distance between years gets progressively longer as the time moves up (closer to the present)
The continents are labeled at the top. Note that Africa is between Europe and Asia, although on a map it is south of both.

2. Agricultural Environments
Activity 3:
Agricultural
Environments

3. Agricultural Environments
I can locate and describe places having the characteristics for good agricultural activities

4. Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Agricultural Environments
Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Available water for irrigation
or adequate precipitation
Suitable growing season
Soft soil, easy to work with simple tools

5. Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Agricultural Environments
Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Available water for irrigation
or adequate precipitation
Usually a nearby river or possible flood plain.
Rivers can flood in a rainy season
when water reaches the low, flat land
near sea level.

6. Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Agricultural Environments
Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Available water for irrigation
or adequate precipitation
Suitable growing season
If a river floodplain is
too far from the equator, farming is impossible because the river and the soil stay frozen too long.
If a river floodplain is
too close to the equator, farming can be hard because weeds and diseases are common in places that stay hot.

7. Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Agricultural Environments
Early Agricultural Settlements need:
Available water for irrigation
or adequate precipitation
Suitable growing season
Soft soil, easy to work with simple tools
A river civilization can develop
where the weather is good for growing food
and a flooding river
makes the soil soft and easy to plow.

8. the best locations for early agricultural
Agricultural Environments
Early Agricultural Settlements need:
We can look
at maps
to determine
the best locations for early agricultural
settlements.
Available water for irrigation
or adequate precipitation
Suitable growing season
Soft soil, easy to work with simple tools

9. The land around the Yenisei River (F) is too cold to farm.
Agricultural Environments
What other river (s) might have soil that would stay frozen for too long?
Circle C next to these
The land around the Yenisei River (F) is too cold to farm.

10. What other river(s) might be in areas that are too hot?
Agricultural Environments
What other river(s) might be in areas that are too hot?
Circle H next to these rivers
Farming is hard around the Amazon River (C) because weeds and diseases are common in places that are hot all the time.

11. Where do you think river civilizations were possible?
Agricultural Environments
Where do you think river civilizations were possible?
Circle P next to these rivers
Before people invented furnaces and air conditioners, weather conditions were usually best between the 25 and 40 degree latitude lines.

12. Agricultural Environments
In the next activity, we will find the areas where evidence of early farming has been found.

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