
Vol 1 Ep 24 - SUMMARY - Civilisation
History of the World podcast
A Brief History of the Dryas
The younger dryas would have had a very nate impact on the plants that were growing in areas such as the fertile crescent. In order to safeguard these crop yields, humans would have had to have lived near to them or risked losing them. Humans started discovering the advantages of hardening the mixtures of earth and clay that could be extracted from the ground. And it was by exploiting this natural resource that humans could start making mud bricks - which they used to build more permanent dwellings. The human necessity to control animal populations increased as the human being's listal became a settled, sedentary listal. Some cultures would deliberately pastoralize herds, controlling their movements, while others would effectively imprison