The Four World Zones Become Connected
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1 The Four World Zones Become Connected By Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History Project, adapted by Newsela staff on Word Count 812 TOP: Asia from space. Photo: Corbis. MIDDLE: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska, USA. Photo: Tim Thompson/CORBIS. BOTTOM: Four World Zones. Photo: Photo: Big History Project When the Ice Age ended, the seas rose. For a time, rising seas divided the world. This lasted from about 10,000 years ago to about 500 years ago. Four geographic zones formed. They were separate. Four groups of people created their own cultures. The oceans kept them away from each other during this time. What are world zones? Historian David Christian divides the world into four zones. Many other historians focus on just the two largest world zones. They look at Afro-Eurasia and the Americas. Afro-Eurasia, the Old World," is the largest zone. The Americas, or the New World, is the second largest. But Christian lived in Australia. He preferred looking at the whole world. These are the four world zones that he uses: Afro-Eurasia: Africa and Eurasia, which is Europe and Asia. It includes islands like Britain and Japan. The Americas: North, Central, and South America. The Caribbean Islands are included here.
2 Australasia: Australia and the island of Papua New Guinea. Nearby islands in the Pacific Ocean count as Australasia. The Pacific Islands: societies such as New Zealand, Micronesia, and Hawaii. (Antarctica is not considered a world zone. No people lived there.) A world zone is simply a large area where humans interact. It is linked together geographically. It's also linked by things like language, religion, trade, or politics. It may have a hundred thousand people living in different types of communities. There may even be millions. Each of the four world zones was its own world for a time. There was no regular contact between the zones. That all changed when Europeans sailed to the Americas in Today, the four separate world zones are gone. Our world is now connected. For most of human history, humans existed only in Afro-Eurasia. Humans moved to Australasia about 60,000 to 50,000 BCE. We reached the Americas about 20,000 to 15,000 BCE. Humans interacted together in these three areas until the end of the Ice Age. As the Ice Age ended, ice melted. Sea levels began to rise. Once, a land bridge connected Asia and the Americas. But the rising waters covered the land bridge.
3 There never was a land bridge between Australasia and Afro-Eurasia. The only way of getting between those zones was by sea. After the seas rose, traveling between Afro- Eurasia and Australasia became even more difficult. The seas rose after humans reached the Americas from Afro-Eurasia. Once humans arrived there, the world had three separate zones. The fourth world zone was the Pacific Islands. It developed later. Until humans became skilled enough at sailing, there was no way to reach the Pacific Islands. People's sailing skills did not become good enough to reach the islands until 4,000 years ago.
4 And so, three zones existed from about 10,000 BCE to about 1500 CE. The fourth was the Pacific Islands. It was only around from about 2000 BCE to 1500 CE. After 1500, all of the zones became connected through sea travel. What the four world zones reveal The rising seas cut off the four groups of humans from each other. Humans remained separate long enough to develop different cultures and civilizations. But they were not separate for so long that they developed into separate species. How amazing is that? Farming civilizations emerged only in the two largest world zones, Afro-Eurasia and the Americas. They succeeded there for good reason. Those two zones started with advantages over the others. Afro-Eurasia had the greatest advantages. It was extremely large. It had better plants for food and better animals for transportation. These advantages allowed civilization to begin there several thousand years earlier than in the Americas. This gave the people from Afro-Eurasia an advantage when they arrived in the Americas. It made conquering the Americas easier. The two smaller world zones had much less room for people to live. There were fewer resources and fewer people. There were not enough people living close together to develop civilization. Agriculture did emerge on the larger islands in the Pacific, like Hawaii. Something close to countries sprung up. But then these lands were conquered. They did not have a chance for civilizations to grow on their own. Would they have become civilizations if they had not been conquered by people from the larger zones? We will never know.
5 On Australia, widespread agriculture never developed. The soil was poor. The plants there were not easy to grow. Still, archaeological sites show that the population was increasing in the 2,000 years before the Europeans arrived. It is easy to see that people living in Afro-Eurasia had a huge head start. They had the earliest human settlements. They were helped by having the greatest geographic area. They had the most people. Afro-Eurasia also had the most resources. Perhaps most importantly, it had shared the most knowledge. Its networks contained more information than the ones in the smaller zones.
6 Quiz 1 Which of the following sentences provides the CENTRAL idea of the article? Historian David Christian divides the world into four zones. Many other historians focus on just the two largest world zones. Today, the four separate world zones are gone. Our world is now connected. A world zone is simply a large area where humans interact. It is linked together geographically. Humans moved to Australasia about 60,000 to 50,000 BCE. We reached the Americas about 20,000 to 15,000 BCE. 2 Read paragraph 2 of the section "What the four world zones reveal." Which answer choice represents the MAIN idea of the paragraph? Afro-Eurasia was geographically the largest zone with the most population. People in Afro-Eurasia first learned how to farm in the Americas. Civilizations in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas were very similar. Afro-Eurasia developed a civilization earlier than the Americas. 3 Read the following paragraph from the section "What are world zones?" For most of human history, humans existed only in Afro-Eurasia. Humans moved to Australasia about 60,000 to 50,000 BCE. We reached the Americas about 20,000 to 15,000 BCE. Humans interacted together in these three areas until the end of the Ice Age. As the Ice Age ended, ice melted. Sea levels began to rise. There was a land bridge connecting Asia and the Americas. But the rising waters covered the land bridge. Which answer choice is CLOSEST in meaning to "interacted" as used in this paragraph? traveled and stayed to live had wars with each other lived and formed a civilization together moved away from areas with rising sea levels as a group
7 4 Read the sentence from the section "What the four world zones reveal." Would they have become civilizations if they had not been conquered by people from the larger zones? What does the phrase "conquered by" mean? assisted by invaded by formed an association with separated by
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