首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist said yesterday. An increase in harsh, ar
Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist said yesterday. An increase in harsh, ar
admin
2013-05-29
61
问题
Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist said yesterday. An increase in harsh, arid conditions across the globe around 5,000 years ago forced people to start living in stable communities around remaining water sources. "We can certainly say that the earliest civilisations arose on the backdrop of increasing dryness, which are driven by natural, global-scale changes in climate," said Nick Brooks of the University of East Anglia. "The cultural transitions track changes in environmental conditions quite closely."
Dr. Brooks said his research turned traditional ideas of how the world’s first civilisations started--such as those in Egypt, China, the Indus Valley region and South America---on their head. Many anthropologists think that civilisation was spread gradually among populations after it began in some part of the world. ’A current popular theory is that the world’s first civilisation developed because it could; the environment was relatively friendly," said Dr. Brooks. "This is based on the argument of the last 10,000 years being climatically very stable and quite conducive to flourishing of agriculture and large, urban civilisations."
But Dr. Brooks argued that civilisation arose instead from environmental calamities. His work is focused on the Sahara region, where he says the cultural history shows that, around 5~10,000 years ago, the humid areas there abruptly changed into the Sahara desert we see today. The Garamantian tribe, which lived in what is now south-west Libya more than 3,000 years ago, emerged when the land there dried out. After this period, we see the first stone structures, the beginnings of urbanisation, agriculture and the development of novel technologies to access ground water, such as wells," said Dr. Brooks. "What we see here is the story of people responding to the environmental change with the drying up of the region. That leads to the emergence of the Garamantian state."
He added that the stow was similar in the other cradles of civilisation around the world. Without the driving force of climate change, human societies might have evolved far more slowly, said Dr. Brooks. "Maybe we would have remained village farmers and herders, hunter-gatherers and so on," he said. "Perhaps you’d have a less population-dense kind of civilisation."
According to Nick Brooks, ______.
选项
A、differences in civilizations are the result of differences in climate conditions
B、the emergence of civilizations is closely related to climate change
C、the development of civilizations has caused the world climate change
D、similar civilizations have appeared despite various climate conditions
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/2oHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Giventheadvantageofelectronicmoney,youmightthinkthatweshouldmovequicklytothecashlesssocietyinwhichallpaymen
Giventheadvantageofelectronicmoney,youmightthinkthatweshouldmovequicklytothecashlesssocietyinwhichallpaymen
Manycountrieshaveconservationprogramstopreventcertain______offishfrombecomingextinct.
Sherememberedseveraloccasionsinthepast______shehadexperiencedasimilarfeeling.
Agreatdealofattentionisbeingpaidtodaytotheso-calleddigitaldivide—thedivisionoftheworldintotheinfo(informatio
Americansnolongerexpectpublicfigures,whetherinspeechorinwriting,tocommandtheEnglishlanguagewithskillandgift.
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
TheJapanesedesireformarriagehadbeenverystrong.Inthefifth""worldyouthattitudesurvey""【C1】______bytheManagementa
TheJapanesedesireformarriagehadbeenverystrong.Inthefifth""worldyouthattitudesurvey""【C1】______bytheManagementa
随机试题
①建议从事童书出版的机构聘请心理学、教育学、出版学等相关领域专家共同把关。为儿童读物筑牢安全防线②童书出版有必要设立严格门槛③童书出版需要认定资质、配备专业编辑,目前在这方面尚有欠缺④我国现有专业少儿出版社30多家,随着市场需求增长,少儿出版的队伍不
当前,在一些跨国公司中较为流行的做法是在_____范围内选择供应商。
2岁患儿,发热1天出现皮疹,为红色斑丘疹,由面部开始一日遍及全身,伴枕部、耳后及颈部淋巴结肿大。诊断最可能为
银行资产除了提供信贷货币外,还应提供多种金融服务,如投资中介、财务咨询等配套业务,使资产经营更具有深度和广度。这个理论是()。
职工参加工伤保险,由用人单位和职工本人共同缴纳工伤保险费。()
针对企业内部控制审计,注册会计师应当在总体审计策略中体现的内容有()。
下列说法错误的是:
数据库系统的核心是( )。
Everysummer,JeanPiagetretreatstohiscabinintheAlps,wherehespendsmostofhisdaysanalyzingthemassofresearchdat
FrommyinfancyIwasnotedforthedocilityandhumanityofmydisposition.Mytendernessofheartwasevensoconspicuousast
最新回复
(
0
)