How Are Humans Affected By Physical Geography

The human race has advanced massively over the years. From the time that our ancestors first decided to leave all they had ever known in their home in Africa and venture into the great unknown. Regardless of whether you gauge progress economically, technologically, or culturally, by all of these measures mankind has made incredible advances. However, man’s progress was not entirely due to human inventions and innovations. Physical geography influenced many of their choices and we are still affected by physical geography in the modern day and age.The development, dispersion, and alteration of cultures was also affected by physical geography. The emergence of agriculture due to favorable physical geography conditions was physical geography’s greatest gift to humankind. Through agriculture, the snowflake that that is advancement was pushed over the edge of a the mountain and grew exponentially in mass and velocity until it eventually reached the world
Everything was carrying on swimmingly, but suddenly, the waters of the river began to recede farther and farther from the group’s cave. Eventually, the river became nothing but a dry riverbed. With their main source of food depleted, the group was forced to migrate to find an alternate source of food. This scenario and others like it were one of the first times in which humans were affected by physical geography, and they were by no means the last time. Throughout history, mankind has been influenced by physical geography, be it positively, such as the flooding of the Nile River in Egypt that provided water. However, physical geography can also have negative effects, like the scenario above, droughts, and other natural disasters. Physical geography is like a wild card; one can never know if it will help him, hinder him, or affect him at