Does the Past Really Impact the Future?
Actions from the past, affect the present period. Everything that's been done in the past has had an effect on the world today no matter how great or minuscule the action was, something did change.
You were eating a piece of fruit and you decided to throw the seed onto the ground. And it just so happens that a few days later, a construction crew came through and built a road right next to the seed you left, give it about 3 years and the road will be basically destroyed because of the tree that sprouted up and its roots are breaking the concrete.
Let's say that the Americans never decided to move west at all, and just minded their own business on the colonies they took, first of all, none of the historical figures born in the 1800's would even exist, much less be famous. The America's would be very low on resources because of overpopulation in the small area they had to live on, they'd also probably be vulnerable to attack due to the person to supply ratios (5 Men: 2 Meals), and the biggest impact above all would be that the natives would have never learned of American culture and the U.S. would probably still be a (mostly) first world country today.
1971 2017
This Could Have Actually Happened Guys...
It really depends on what the Americans would do once they decided "Eh... going west seems too hard." Would they just perish because of native opposition? Would they just pack up and go back to Europe? Or would they use the land that they had acquired to the best of their ability and have a quality over quantity country causing an alternate time line where modern America only consists of 13 colonies that are more advanced and maintained due to the fact that having much less space is easier to govern? That last one was a stretch but honestly... Who knows?
Changes of this size aren't exclusive to the 1800's either, at the time of this posting, Hurricane Jose is heading towards the east coast, depending on the trajectory of that storm will greatly impact how the next few months of our lives go. It could be completely devastating or it could just be a whole lot of wind, and a whole lot of rain, yet again who knows? No matter how unrealistic an outcome may seem, just remember that it could still happen.
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http://thefirst13colonies.weebly.com/
You were eating a piece of fruit and you decided to throw the seed onto the ground. And it just so happens that a few days later, a construction crew came through and built a road right next to the seed you left, give it about 3 years and the road will be basically destroyed because of the tree that sprouted up and its roots are breaking the concrete.
Let's say that the Americans never decided to move west at all, and just minded their own business on the colonies they took, first of all, none of the historical figures born in the 1800's would even exist, much less be famous. The America's would be very low on resources because of overpopulation in the small area they had to live on, they'd also probably be vulnerable to attack due to the person to supply ratios (5 Men: 2 Meals), and the biggest impact above all would be that the natives would have never learned of American culture and the U.S. would probably still be a (mostly) first world country today.
1971 2017
This Could Have Actually Happened Guys...
It really depends on what the Americans would do once they decided "Eh... going west seems too hard." Would they just perish because of native opposition? Would they just pack up and go back to Europe? Or would they use the land that they had acquired to the best of their ability and have a quality over quantity country causing an alternate time line where modern America only consists of 13 colonies that are more advanced and maintained due to the fact that having much less space is easier to govern? That last one was a stretch but honestly... Who knows?
Changes of this size aren't exclusive to the 1800's either, at the time of this posting, Hurricane Jose is heading towards the east coast, depending on the trajectory of that storm will greatly impact how the next few months of our lives go. It could be completely devastating or it could just be a whole lot of wind, and a whole lot of rain, yet again who knows? No matter how unrealistic an outcome may seem, just remember that it could still happen.
Citation(s):
http://thefirst13colonies.weebly.com/
I appreciate how to incorporated a current "unknown" (the hurricane) into your post. You also provided a great opportunity to discuss how and why countries expand. It made me think of how Germany knew they had "run out of room" in the early 1900s and wanted to seize more territories, and we ended up fighting a global war over it.
ReplyDeleteI'm also intrigued by your "it's a stretch..." idea that maybe if we had stayed put and really focused on developing the best country possible in the lands we already had claimed, maybe we would be a better quality country. What areas of American life and society do you see as being lackluster?
I feel like the underdevelopment of certain states is a little disappointing by American standards, because you have overcrowded states like New York where you hardly have any shoulder room, then you have states like Wyoming, where the most of the population there is just hostile winds. But my point is that we took all this land from the natives with the intention to "Americanize" it then hardly even used it.
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