The Ice Age's Influence On Present Day America

According to our earliest form of recorded history, the first people to actually be on present day America were the Ice Age explorers. However, from the thick ice sheets melting, the oceans rising, land movement, volcanic eruptions, and other natural occurrences, America was then shaped differently and harder to reach. Following the Ice Age, the next peoples to live in present day America were the Native American’s. The Native Americans needed large, rich, fertile lands to farm there most valuable and popular crop - corn. They first farmed in Mexico and Central America, but later migrated up north of Mexico to settle into new lands to increase corn production. Aztec and Incan nation-states were soon developed from their people’s massive size
A major drought hit America in A.D. 1300, and eventually all the cultures declined then left North America for a while. As time went on, more explorers were curious about the world and stumbled upon the corners of America. The new world was filled with untouched land and new riches and good weather that intrigued many, however none were prepared for American conditions and all who tried, eventually left. As Europeans became hungrier for goods, materials, wealth, and land, one man known as Christopher Columbus set out in 1492 to find just what the Spaniards were looking for. He and his crew found an island off of what is now the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. The crew had discovered a new land with all the opportunity in the world. They were optimistic and hopeful, seeing all of the possibilities of riches. Two centuries passed and ships from Europe kept unloading their goods and animals to start forming a new civilization that collected all the goods America had to offer. America offered gold, silver, corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, and chocolate which were all expensive and valuable, attracting more countries attention and thirst for