Climate change and world history: Wildebeest on savannah grasslands, Kenya (Africa) African grasslands emerge In the years just before human beings first evolved, the world was a wetter place than [...]
Date palm Palms and papyrus The plants that grew in ancient Egypt were very different from plants that grow in America or Britain. The lotus and the papyrus plants, for [...]
Egyptian geography: a map showing the Sahara desert and the Nile river The Sahara Desert Egypt has a very special environment, which has played a very big part in Egyptian [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
