Geography

GEOGRAPHYIce Man was preserved inside of a glacier for

5,300 years.After he passed away Ice Man was quickly concealed by snow. Layer by layer the snow compressed into ice and

eventually turned into a glacier.

The Alps have had an extreme climate for thousands of years.

The Alps were snowy, icy and rocky. Temperatures were usually below 0 degrees.

GEOGRAPHYIce Man

settled down in a rocky hallow in The Alps.

He was in the Italian side of the

border when he was

discovered.

Otzi was discovered

alone, however he must have had some

sort of family.

~The first people to live in the Alps wereGerman descendants now named Walserpeople. They spoke and practiced German

culture, and the Italians migrated to the Alps centuries later.

by Ilsa

Economyby Nick

• Food was mainly obtained from farming and animal domestication

• Pigs, sheep, goats, and cattle were all commonly used animals in the Alpine region

• Used Transhumance-type of agriculture in which you drive your cattle to a high grazing land in the summer

• Copper was a very valuable substance and helped the Alpine region to become a significant economic area due to its vast resources of copper

• Copper would be used to make tools, weapons, utensils Etc.

In the Alpine region high ranking people had symbols

One such symbol was a dagger or copper itemSmelters usually had a high rank because

they turned copper into useful itemsHigh ranking political jobs included

ShamanCattle OwnerVillage ChiefVillage RepresentativeSmelter

Politics