Enviromental Timeline

  • Hunter Gathers
    150

    Hunter Gathers

    Most people traveling from place to place
  • Homo-Sapiens
    200

    Homo-Sapiens

    Homo-Sapiens walked the Earth
  • Agricultural Revolution
    200

    Agricultural Revolution

    Nomadic peopled began settling down
  • Slash and Burn
    250

    Slash and Burn

    People began clearing forest into fields for planting
  • Shifting Cultivation
    275

    Shifting Cultivation

    Rotation of crops to prevent exhaustation of soil
  • pre-1400
    Jan 12, 1400

    pre-1400

    All farming with very little technological advances
  • White Men
    Jan 12, 1492

    White Men

    Columbus discovers a new world
  • Bison
    Jan 12, 1500

    Bison

    30-60 millon Bison roamed the North American Plains
  • Frontier Era

    Frontier Era

    beginning
  • England

    England

    Industrial Revolution in England
  • Eli Whitney Born

    Eli Whitney Born

  • Constitution

    Constitution

  • Industrial Revolution in USA

    Industrial Revolution in USA

  • Land

    Land

    Goverment owns 80% of land
  • Bison Hunters

    Bison Hunters

    Railroads hired bison hunters
  • Life in the Woods

    Life in the Woods

    thoreau and Marsh
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

  • Frontier Era

    Frontier Era

    Ends
  • Frontier closed

    Frontier closed

  • Sierra Club

    Sierra Club

  • Sierra Club

    Sierra Club

  • Period: to

    Beginning of Time

  • Bison

    Bison

    Bison shrunken to a tiny area
  • War

    War

    World War 1
  • Period: to

    Beggining of Time