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the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
Environment can be defined as a sum total of all the living and non-living elements and their effects that influence human life.
Because many believed there could be gold and many other riches that were undiscovered and also wished in claiming new land for wars in case another broke out
Clothing, food, and some reminders of home
hope this helps
Indus Valley, Ancient Egypt, Yellow River Civ, and Central Europe I think.
Roaring twenties, that should be it
