A desert is hot during the day and cold during the night
In geography a human settlement is a locality or populated place is a community in which people live.
East coast United States is quite humid. You get past the appellation. You get more of a mild weather. Not to cold or hot. Just mild. You are along the Mississippi River. Temperatures get mild again. Get to the Rocky Mountains temperatures rise. Less humid and more hot. More of a desert. Then right in the Rocky Mountains desert. Then you get to the west coast. Cali, Oregon, Washington. You get all kinds of temperature. South Cali a desert. North Cali (?past San Francisco.( humid, mild) Oregon,( humid, mild) Washington ( mild).
One effect that plentiful harvests had on ancient civilizations of the mainland's river valleys was to help have larger populations and the need to have materials to survive.
