Environmental transformation
What Environmental transformation means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
European grazing animals such as sheep, cattle and horses overgrazed native vegetation, leading to severe soil erosion and ecological devastation.
Aggressive land acquisition and the near-extermination of the buffalo fundamentally transformed the Plains ecosystem and economy.
Topics that use Environmental transformation
- Period Study: The Making of America, 1789–1900 (OCR GCSE)
- World Depth Study: Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest, 1519–1535 (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Economic exploitation
- Agricultural economics
- Assimilation and cultural destruction
- Broken treaties and government policy
- Conflict and violence
- Conflict and warfare
- Cultural assimilation
- Demographic change
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