Can you discuss how human beings would have impacted the land, water, plants and animals around them when they began agriculture and animal herding?

Can you discuss how human beings would have impacted the land, water,

1.	Can you discuss how human beings would have impacted the land, water, plants and animals around them when they began agriculture and animal herding?
Answer» With the development of agriculture humans began to radically transform the environment in which they lived. They cleared the lands around their settlements and controlled the plants that grew and the animals that grazed on them. They devised ways of storing rain water and rechanneling river water to irrigate plants. They built reservoirs, dug canals, dikes and sluices that permitted water storage. They domesticated major food crops, plants such as flax and cotton and began to cultivate them. Men also took lead in taming, breeding and raising the large animals associated with both farming and pastoral communities. Thus human beings impacted the land water, plants and animals around them when they began agriculture and animal rearing.