Cultural Shifts in Human HistoryHuman Evolutions and Revolutions North America in the 1800’s • When the early European settlers arrived in North America, what do you think they found? • Were there any people here when they arrived? How do you those people lived their lives? • Do you think there were differences how they each group viewed resources? • How would you describe the relationship between Native Americans & the land? • How about European Settlers relationship with land as they moved West? North America in the 1800’s Characteristics: • North America inhabited by humans about 14,000+ years ago • At least 10,000,000 Native Americans • Lived as part of the land utilizing game, fish, fruits, vegetables • Established irrigation systems, managed forests & grasslands and wildlife populations • Viewed earth as their “mother” Incompatible Visions of America Characteristics: • Settlers came in search of resources • Incompatible views of the land • Manifest Destiny “Handiwork of man met the handiwork of nature. . . “ • Conflict over land rights The American West was “Won and Lost” • 1850 - 80% of all U.S. land was owned by Federal Government • 1850 -Indian Reservation System created • 1850 - expansion westward by Settlers • 1900 - more than 50% of land given away or sold at low cost; rangelands severely degraded • 1900- 95% of original forest land used up Decline of Resource- American Buffalo Today- only 20,000 Continental U.S. Today • 3,000 miles (Pacific to Atlantic) • 1,200 miles (Gulf of Mexico to Canada) • Encompasses 2.3 billion acres (3,787,000 square miles) • Abundant natural resources • Extreme wealth and military might • 5% of world’s population, but use 25% of the resources Hunter Gatherers Characteristics: • Occupies up to 90% of human history timeline • All food obtained from wild plants and animals • Small in numbers 10-50mobile- they move where the resources are • Typically a division of labor along sexual lines Agricultural Characteristics • More settled- less nomadic • Introduction of domesticated animals and plant life • More villages • Waterways and irrigation • Beginning of a bartering society Industrial Characteristics • Machines instead of making things by hand • Defined by textiles, iron and steam for energy • Advent of fossil fuels • Production of chemicals and automated assembly • Large cities instead of villages • Increased use of resources to make things • More pollution Information/Globalization Characteristics • Advent of computers and data storage/communication • Improved travel and ability to communicate globally via internet • Compressed product and technology cycles • Consumerism • Even more pollution 
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