How much has the weather/landscape/fauna changed since ancient times?

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How much has the weather/landscape/fauna changed since ancient times? 2017-05-12 06:46:04 Post No. 2799976
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How much has the weather/landscape/fauna changed since ancient times? Anonymous 2017-05-12 06:46:04 Post No. 2799976 [Report]

I don't even know how to formulate this question properly since I'm so ignorant in this field, but how different does Europe look now than it did 2-3000 years ago?

I ask because I recently heard a person say that just one thousand years ago it was warm enough in the British Isles to keep vineyards. So I'm just wondering, did things change so much? Would Greece and Italy from 1000 BCE look altogether different from how they do today? I know that many regions in Romania and Ukraine used to have aurochs as well that are now gone. How often has this happened?

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Anonymous 2017-05-12 06:57:25 Post No.2800032
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Anonymous 2017-05-12 06:57:25 Post No.2800032 [Report]

>>2799976
There were much more forests and most likely more biodiversity. People forget that deforestation happens in Erope too.

Anonymous 2017-05-12 08:42:22 Post No.2800540
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Anonymous 2017-05-12 08:42:22 Post No.2800540 [Report]

>>2799976
egypt was the breadbasket of rome.

Anonymous 2017-05-12 08:44:14 Post No.2800554
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Anonymous 2017-05-12 11:41:27 Post No.2801286
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>>2799976
There was a huge hot period in medieval times which allowed people to grow vineyards in England. It was followed by the little ice age that ended just about 150 years ago. Climate and temperature naturally changes a lot.

Of course Egypt and much of North Africa used to be more of a Savannah before succumbing to desertification. On the European side woods would be cleared of brush to make it easier to travel and trees were routinely managed and harvested for building materials. Supposedly the American Indians were really good at managing forests too.

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Depends on the region, loss of forests would be the most dramatic man-made change. One of the many causes of Syria going to shit relates to that.

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