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Ap Human Geography Chapter 3 Essay

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In chapter 3, it discussed the different territorial states of Egypt, Southwest Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. During the early developments of these territorial states, climate played a big role in each states. Farmers were largely affected by the climate changes, and long period of droughts occurred throughout the lands. Due to the radical changes of climates, “powerful warming and drying trend”, it was hard for many territorial states to continue to grow enough crops to feed their people or raise animals (textbook pg 93). Thus, causing them to move and try to find a better place to live where there is more water, and this migration caused many developments to occur. An important development that I would say is the most important that led to the growth of the these early territorial states is the development of the …show more content…

Nomads and their chariot was such an important development that led to the growth of these early territorial states. An effect that happened from the initial development of chariots are the innovations. When migration occurred and the nomads invaded the lands, the invention of chariot was created. The horse chariot consisted of “a two-wheeled horse drawn vehicle used in warfare and later in procession and races” (textbook pg 84). In the beginning, horse chariots were made to carry and transport items from A to B, but later on, in the chapter, horse chariots became used for war purposes. The pastoralist nomads “lightened the chariots of their war horses so chariots could be pulled faster; spoked wheels made of special circular bent wood were replaced by solid-wood wheels that were heavier and prone to shatter” (textbook pg 85). Because the initial development of chariots, the

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