What do you mean by settlement?

Settlements are places where human beings live and live together, which are divided into urban settlements and rural settlements.

Human settlement environment is a living environment created by human beings consciously developing, utilizing and transforming nature. The floorboard of various forms of human settlements. The word "settlement" refers to ancient villages. For example, it is recorded in "Han Shu Gou Zhi" in China: "If you don't do harm for a long time, build a little house, so you will become a settlement." Modern refers to all settlements. Settlement is the research object of settlement geography.

living condition

Settlements are places where human beings live together. Human settlement environment is a living environment created by human beings consciously developing, utilizing and transforming nature.

Early human settlements generally chose places with superior natural conditions such as topography and climate and rich natural resources. For example, the Lantian ape-man site in Shaanxi, China is on the highest level of a river. At that time, the climate there was warm and humid, and there were many animals for hunting (42 kinds of animals were found in archaeology).

With the continuous improvement of human ability to use and transform nature, the field of human activities has been expanding, from tropical, temperate to cold zone, creating various forms of human settlements.

Residential buildings in settlements are created by local residents to adapt to the local natural environment and facilitate the acquisition of building materials from the local area. They have both obvious characteristics of the times and obvious local colors.