Ancient Civilization: Mayans, Cro-Magnons, Paleo-Indians

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In 18,000 the civilizations had to worry about a lot more than we do today. In 18,000 people suffered diseases without medicine, draughts that left no crops to eat, natural disasters that changed the world they lived in, and invasions of others. Today we do not have to worry about much because have government that takes over a lot of things, and even though we have natural disasters they do not seem as tragic as they use to be such as wiping out complete civilizations. We cannot really predict when every single disaster is supposed to happen, we never actually really could. We do today have the extensive use of computers and such to help us research and figure it out more. It seems as though ancient civilizations, such as the Mayans, Cro-Magnons, Paleo-Indians, Celts, Romans, and Chaco-Indians, had trouble with themselves. They had a hard time adjusting to their new environments and climates, and they were unable to handle natural disasters. It seems as though the climate change, from cold to warm and vice versa really affected the ancient civilizations and droughts were extremely effective of their growth.
About 15,000 years ago, a strip of land called the Central Beringia once connected Siberia and Alaska. Due to global warming and the warming of the Earth, the bridge shrunk around the edges causing the sea to rise and the waters to rise. The Siberia people who lived near the bridge began to move to North America due to the bridge being shrunk. People believe that they were colonized by animals and hunting. This is because as the waters rose, they had to move along with it and they moved to the places where they knew that they could find food easily. The first settlement seemed to be sporadic with an untidy process, or even no p...

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...ps and less food for all of us. From the ancient civilizations we should learn that the environment and climate is always changing. We think it’s always the same but it could easily be changing everyday. In time, it could easily be completely different and we could have no idea where we are anymore. America is more vulnerable because of the increase of population growth, urbanization, and the Industrial Revolution (xv). As Fagan says, “In our efforts to cushion ourselves against smaller, more frequent climate stresses we have consistently made ourselves more vulnerable to rarer but larger catastrophes.” Fagan means that because we have made our cities and civilization so close together because of population growth, if a natural disaster hit then it would destroy a lot more than we think it would. We need to study our climate to prepare ourselves for these disasters.

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