Question

Explain how the physical landscape has affected the development of agriculture and industry in the ancient world.

Agriculture and permanent settlement

developed more than 100,000 years ago
resulted in an unlimited resource supply
allowed growth of specialization and trade
encouraged humans to live nomadic lives

Answer 1

The answer to the question: How the physical landscape has affected the development of agriculture and industry in the ancient world. Season crop rotation, would be, A: Helped farmers protect the fertile soil.

Step-by-step explanation:

Crop rotation first appeared in the ancient world, in Rome. This system, which followed the motto: "food, feed, fallow" was also adopted by Europeans later on, and it was done so that farmers would be able to use the available fertile land to grow different food crops, depending on the year, and the season. Usually, what these farmers did was to divide their terrains in three sections, and they would rotate the type of crop, and the section, in which it would be grown. In this way, they were able to protect the soil from overuse and they were able to be more productive.

Answer 2

The correct answer to this question is C) allowed the growth of specialization and trade.

It is completely true that the physical landscape has affected the development of agriculture and industry in the ancient world. Agriculture and permanent settlement allowed the growth of specialization and trade.

This was the case of ancient civilizations such as Sumeria-Mesopotamia, in the Middle East region. The Sumerians settled in between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, in what today is Iraq, for the many advantages it represented. They learned agriculture techniques and with the rivers on each side, they grew crops that allowed to stay there and built powerful citie-states such as Ur, Lagash, Kish, and Uruk, that were good traders.