Ancient Egyptian Animals: wild and tame
Ancient Egyptian animals: Crocodiles from the New Kingdom What kind of animals lived in ancient Egypt? Mostly, the same kinds of animals lived in ancient Egypt as in other parts [...]
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Ancient China’s environment – Himalayas and Gobi Desert
Himalaya Mountains: part of the Chinese environment China's like a staircase Sometimes people describe China's landscape as being like a staircase with three steps. The top step of this Chinese [...]
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Chinese animals – Environment of China
A camel caravan in northern China Long ago, in the Stone Age, about 3000 BC, many different kinds of wild animals lived in China - elephants, lions, pandas, wild horses, [...]
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Environment of Central Asia
Central Asian steppe What is the steppe? By the time the first Neanderthals reached Central Asia, maybe about 100,000 BC, most of Central Asia was covered by hundreds of miles [...]
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What is an aurochs? Central Asian Environment
Cave painting of a herd of aurochs (about 14000 BC) When did the aurochs evolve? Around fifty million years ago, after the dinosaurs died, large mammals started to evolve from smaller mammals [...]
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Medieval African Environment
African environment: the Sahara Desert A drought in the High Middle Ages Another very bad drought hit Africa in the Middle Ages, in 963 AD. Again, the drought led to [...]
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Early African Environment
Early African environment: map of Africa showing climate zones Africa before humans The history of people in Africa, from the earliest times to today, is deeply intertwined with a bunch [...]
