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The big change was in the climate .
What did the warmer climate change?
The earth grew warmer
About 12,000 years ago
1. The land
Forests and grasslands grew
Example:
Ice sheets pulled back
2. The food
A wider variety to eat
Example:
Small game animals
Fish
Wild grains
3. The people
Numbers rose sharply
Example:
First population explosion
- Around 12,000 years ago , the Earth's climate became warmer .
- This led to significant changes in the environment .
- Forests and grasslands expanded into areas that were previously covered by ice sheets .
- An ice sheet is a thick layer of ice that covers land for thousands of years.
- So land that was once frozen and empty now became green and full of life.
