Why did humans decide to settle down in very harsh environments like Siberia or the Saharan Desert, why not live in places more moderate and more accepting to life and civilization?
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You will find that many were much greener/warmer etc, when people settled down there. The climate changed over 1000s of years and some adapted to the changing climate, some left and some died.
Here are few examples-
In what is now Egypt. The deserts were open grass plans about 6000 years ago. There were a hunter/gatherers and early nomadic herdsmen as the climate dried, most left leaving only the traders crossing the desert and some settled in oasis or chase the rain along the desert edge.
– More recently the Norse settlement in Greenland. There was only two places where farming was just possible and they could fish, but they could trade walrus hide rope and tusks for everything else. The little ice age of the 1500s covered the farming lands with snow and when the traders returned they was no one left. They are some that think a few joined the Inuit but those who didn’t died.
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