Why Is It Impossible To Survive In The Saharan Region?

When people think about the Saharan region, they would know the region would be dry,hot, and lack of any living organisms and would probably think it would be near impossible to live and survive in the Saharan region. However, it is possible to survive in the Saharan region by adapting to the surrounding area and make use of it, finding an oasis as a water source, trading goods with nomads, and much more. Although it may seem impossible at first, but learning what actions are necessary in the Saharan region can make it possible.

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world and the climate is usually very hot and dry there. The average rainfall in the desert is about less than five inches per year. But, humans have found ways to deal

One of the best crops used in the oasis are the date palms because how versatile they’re. In the textbook of “Geography Alive” chapter 20 page 304 it states, “Date palms are by far the most important and common oasis plant. Every part of this tree is useful. Its fruit, the date, is eaten fresh or dried. Its trunk and leaves are used as building materials. Fiber from its bark is made into rope. Date pits, or seeds, are burned as fuel or fed to animals. A visitor to the Sahara once wrote,Those magnificent palm groves are the blood and bone of the desert; life in the Sahara would be unthinkable without them.... The size of an oasis is reckoned by the number of trees it contains, not by the number of square miles it covers.” Settlers living in the oasis depends on the date palm allowing it to be used for many uses such as food, building materials, and used for fuel and without the date palm, it would be very difficult to live in an oasis in the Sahara Desert. Trading and selling goods are the main economic activities in the a settlement in an oasis which let the farmers get goods that are hard to obtain and earn money as well. In the textbook of “Geography Alive” chapter 20 page 305 it states, “Trading and farming are the major economic activities at an oasis. While

However, their environment are entirely different from each other and people have different adaptation for the Sahel’s environment. Firstly, Sahel does receive more rain than the Sahara Desert and have marginal lands. The Sahel is suffering from desertification and could possibly become part of the Sahara Desert if desertification continues. One adaptation in the Sahel was to switch lands every so often to allow the worn-out fields a rest. In the textbook of “Geography Alive” chapter 20 page 307 it states, “One adaptation was to plant crops like millet and sorghum. These are grains that will grow in dry places. Another was to use a farming system known as shifting agriculture. A farmer cleared a field and planted it with crops for a year or two. Then the farmer moved on to a new field. Herders used a similar system to feed their animals. They moved their herds from one grazing area to another throughout the year. Both systems gave worn-out fields a chance to rest.” With farmers and herders changing their land, it helps them learn how to adapted to the marginal land since marginal land is not very suited for growing crops. Secondly, people are deciding to switch wood for coal in order to prevent deforestation. In the textbook of “Geography Alive” chapter 20 page 307 it states, “Yet another problem is deforestation. Most people in the