1. Tropical Africa Tropical Lands
and Asia and Peoples
1200-1500
Tropical Environment Feeding a Population
• Tropical zone between Tropic of Cancer • Human societies adopted different
and Tropic of Capricorn. means of surviving in order to fit into the
• Afro-Asian tropics have a cycle of rainy different ecological zones found in the
and dry seasons dictated by winds tropics.
known as monsoons. – Wild food and fish
• Tropical Zones have areas of abundant – Herding and grain trade
rainfall as well as arid zones. – Farming of rice, wheat, sorghum, and millet
– Rice growing
Rainfall Managing Water Resources
• Tropics has an uneven distribution of • India