History Geography
During the beginning of ancient times, Classical civilization still lived as hunters and gatherers. They used the resources available to them and learned to gather grains, berries, and other plant foods and store them for the winter. This required them to live where the geography and climate could support them, and where supplies of water were easily available. Early settlements clustered around rivers and streams for this reason. By the end of the Classical Era, The Roman Empire had fallen. European cultures had been influenced by Rome's accomplishments, however, and Europeans knew how to build aquifers to bring the water to them. They had learned to build both roads and bridges. They had tamed livestock and used them for transportation. By the Classical Era, many of geography's limitations had solutions. Thus people could live in villages, towns and cities, farm the surrounding countryside and transport it to where it was needed.
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England and Wales only had about 4,000 people living in it. Up to two thirds of all children born died during infancy, and one third of those who survived died before they could bear children themselves. Nearly all humans died before the age of fifty. This made their life cycle much like that of wild animals (p. 51). The combination of very high childhood mortality and short adult life kept populations from growing and expanding. By the Classical Era, agricultural methods had traveled to Europe, and populations now lived in larger clusters. They still tended to be concentrated along natural resources. Europe along the Rhine and the edge of the English Channel as well as the area now in Northern Italy and adjacent areas were most heavily populated. Populations had also grown in England, but life spans were still short, and people had little protection from illness, often in epidemic form. Population still grew slowly compared to day.
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At first glance, the presence of the desert might seem like a curse, not a blessing for the Egyptians. Yet it was the desert "that protected Egypt on two sides. These deserts separated ancient Egypt from neighboring countries and invading armies" ("Geography," Ancient Egypt: The British Museum, 2009). The desert "also provided the ancient Egyptians with a source for precious metals and semi-precious stones," that enriched its leaders and
Staircase ramps which are comprised of steep and narrow steps that lead up one face of the pyramid were more in use at that time with evidence found at the Sinki, Meidum, Giza, Abu Ghurob, and Lisht pyramids respectively (Heizer). A third ramp variation was the spiral ramp, found in use during the nineteenth dynasty and was, as its name suggests, comprised of a ramp covering all faces of the
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