>most of Europe was once covered in forest
What are some other drastic environmental changes in history? Manmade or otherwise.
>>2729624
I believe that the Arabian peninsula was once fairly fertile and green but importing of oranges and other crops from eastern Asia drained the land too much.
>>2729624
Aral Sea
>>2729624
>Europe was too heavily forested for the Mongols to invade!
damn the romans really got to work in Britain
Europoors build homes out of matchsticks.
The Sahara used to be greener some argue it was humans, others climate or both
The Middle-East was apparently greener as it used to be, man is to blame
Australia used to be greener, again either climate, humans or both
The Amazon might be a big (partly) abandoned food forest and in some places is highly fertile thanks to humans
Sources: 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann, Wasted World by Rob Hengeveld
The Aboriginal stuff should be googleable
>>2729624
At first I thought "wow, the climate must've changed a lot" then I saw the dates and realized it was humans that caused it.
By 2017 I think there's more forest than there was in 1850 in most places in Europe.
Back then agriculture was practiced everywhere and villages were populated. Now people have abandoned the villages in the mountains and most farmable land is where it's flat and easily accessible to modern machinery while the forests are growing back
>>2729624
What is Central Europe like forest-wise? I live in Finland and there's forest everywhere so it's pretty weird to think that you could drive around the country and see only towns and fields.
>>2729656
It was the ancient Britons, actually. A fun fact I heard somewhere is that more land was farmed in iron-age times than now.
>>2731024
This. There's tons more forests in developed world now than 100 years ago. Deforestation is only happening in third world shit holes.
Also is captcha recycling same shit over and over again for anyone else?
>>2731024
Yep that is indeed happening, see rewilding Europe for example
Mostly in Spain and (Southern) Eastern Europe
Can someone help me find an ancient source where someone describes Europe as being able to be traveled through without seeing the sun due to the forests?
>>2729624
Areas in red were once land, today they are covered with sea.
>>2731255
Did the earth not start as a huge space rock with no water at all? Meaning it should all be red? Also how did water get on earth? Sorry this is retarded as shit and more astronomy than history.
>>2731344
These were land recently enough, you're talking about tens of thousands of years ago.
>>2731344
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth
Google is your friend
This was Europe just a few thousand years ago.
Meanwhile first civilizations were being born in Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
>>2731344
Life uh, uh, finds a way.
You got a bunch of shit hitting the Earth a long time ago which got chemicals and shit to give to the Earth to allow water to happen.
Why did it change more drastically from 1000 BC to 300 BC than from AD 350 to AD 1000 ?
>>2729630
Source please? This sounds interesting.
>>2731447
In 8300 bc there were not civilizations in Mesopotamia, maybe the very embrional stages of civilization, aka some citadels such as catal hoyuk in Anatolia and Jericho in the Levant
>>2729630
but where tundra?
There was once an age where a squirrel could carry an acorn from Spain to Russia without touching the ground
>>2731447
Thank god we escaped being attached to the continent.
>>2732375
I don't remember where exactly I got it from. I feel like I got it from going on a binge read on wikipedia involving Italian cuisine or while playing Rome: Total War 2.
>>2731477
Dark Ages