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40,000 years ago men started to migrate across the Bering Straits that divide America from China, Europe, and Africa.
Those who stayed north were called “Eskimos”.
They invented the igloo – their house made of snow, and
the kayak – their boat made of seal skin which they used to hunt seals.
Those who strayed south adapted to their surrounding and became nomadic hunters and gatherers. They formed tribes and were called by the Europeans “Native Indians”. The native Indians had very close ties with nature. They looked on owning the land they lived on and off of, much like we look on owning the air we breathe in and out.
They invented the birch bark canoe which for its light weight can carry the heaviest load in the shallowest waters.
They invented the teepee that for its light weight can stay the coolest in the hottest days, and the warmest in the coolest nights and can be rolled up and dragged to other places the most quickly.
The native Indians developed skills in horsemanship and in the use of the bow and arrow, just like Attila the Hun and his Mongol cowboys. Those who stayed in the central part of America tamed the fertile land and settled as farmers.
By 2000BC they started to develop civilizations. The Mayas and Aztecs excelled in mathematics and astrology and were skilled in agriculture, engineering, and metalworking. The Mayas invented the wheel but only used it as a toy. Their civilization lasted 2600 years. The Incas further south were at the peak of their civilization just as the Europeans arrived in 1500AD. They mined, collected and worked gold into beautiful pieces which greatly attracted the Europeans who collected all the gold they could find and shipped it back home.
They were able to easily do this as they were regarded as visiting gods because of their ships, magical firearms and light skin. The churches accompanied the European explorers to convert the natives to be Christians. The native people had many books that called their creator by a different name and they were all burned.
By 1600, settlements started to form in America by people from Europe. The first immigrants were called Puritans. 10,000 Puritans sailed to America to escape persecution from the church, only to end up persecuting the Native Indians most of whom died of the new diseases introduced by the immigrants giving well intentioned but disease infected blankets that were totally new to the natives. 50,000 convicts were sent from overcrowded jails in England to the vast open wilderness in America.
By 1700, slaves started to be imported from Africa. In 1776, after 6 years of fighting, America gained its independence from England. It had thirteen colonies with 2.5 million people. Nearly one in five Americans were black slaves, yet their Declaration of Independence ironically states that “ ..all men are equal and have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
In 1791, the Bill of Rights was adopted. It forbade federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteed a range of legal protections. These limitations served to protect the natural rights of liberty and property including freedoms of religion, speech, a free press, free assembly, and free association, as well as the right to carry weapons. Originally, the Bill of Rights included legal protection for white men only, excluding African Americans and women.
By 1800 Americans were eager to expand westward and prompted a long series of wars with the Native Indians. They removed them from their land and relocated them in reservations like they were prisoners of war.
In 1848 gold was discovered in California and spurred western migration. 300,000 people rushed there, many from all over the world. New railways made relocation easier for settlers and increased conflicts with Native Americans. 100,000 Indians were killed in that time in an attempt to push them out of the way. Up to 40 million buffalo were slaughtered for skins and meat and to ease the railways' spread. The loss of the buffalo, a primary resource for the plains Indians, was an existential blow to many native cultures.
The southern states refused to abolish slavery and threatened to fight for their independence.
In 1861 Americans fought a civil war that lasted 4 years and killed 600,000 people. The war was fought over the right of the Southern States to keep slaves and the right for them to secede from the union. The northern states won. The right to secede was denied and slavery was abolished for the entire land.
In 1861 Americans fought a civil war that lasted 4 years and killed 600,000 people. The war was fought over the right of the Southern States to keep slaves and the right for them to secede from the union. The northern states won. The right to secede was denied and slavery was abolished for the entire land.
In 1867, America bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, or about $5 a square km. In 1900, gold was discovered there and 100,000 people from all over the world rushed up to look for it.
America remained neutral for most of WWI entering only at the end to save the day and win the war for England and France.
In 1913, America delegated a group of private banks to be the national bank. Called the Federal Reserve or FED for short, it had a mandate to produce and issue money and make all monetary decisions on behalf of the country.
For the next 15 years, the bankers celebrated as the FED flooded the country with cheap money. People greedily speculated with the stock market. World trade flooded the country with cheap products, and world immigration flooded the country with cheap labor. This time of history was later to be called “the roaring 20s”.
In 1920, the women's rights movement won passage of a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage, which really added to the party mood.
New technologies like cars, movies, radios and telephones and planes shrunk distance and sped up time and greatly modernized the people. Frills were shed in fashions and buildings and people stretched their newly found freedom with jazz, dancing and smoking.
All the partying irritated the churches and they successfully lobbied for prohibition of alcohol which led to the rise of the mafia and organized crime that supplied the demand for contraband alcohol.
In 1930, speculation led to losses which led to panic. Companies crashed and so did banks. People suddenly and unexpectedly ended up losing the cheap money they had so easily and greedily accumulated. The FED stopped printing cheap money. The government in their attempt to protect American workers and producers stopped immigration of cheap labor and set up tariffs to block the importation of cheap products. The world reacted by setting up tariffs to block exports from America. A great drought that suddenly and unexpectedly appeared aggravated and prolonged the misery. America was suffering a hangover and the 15 years of partying suddenly ended with 10 years of depression that was later called “the great depression”.
Economic recovery came with WWII with America supplying expensive war materials to destroy and expensive construction materials to rebuild. America saved the day once again and was able to end the war by dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan killing 200,000 people.
America and Russia jockeyed for power after the war and developed powerful nuclear arsenals in what was called the Cold War. Subversive anti-communist groups formed within America and terrorized anyone with left leaning politics, just like the KKK terrorized anyone with black skin.
Entrepreneurs marketed beer cigarettes and sports to men who wanted sex appeal.
A few rich homosexual psychopaths marketed high heels, make-up and fashion to women who wanted sex appeal.
The “keep everything, repair and reuse” society of the pioneers of a few hundred years ago, turned into the “throw away consumer” society that wanted always the best and newest products that were marketed.
1960 was the start of the hippy generation. It was a time of laying back and not doing too much. By 1965, sexual and racial discrimination was outlawed and woman rights were promoted.
Then like the munchies, consumerism set in. It was fired by mass media that technology drove to brainwash and hook America into consuming anything that was marketed.
By 1980, American was addicted to toys to play with and
Because his money was accepted worldwide, he printed as much as he needed to.
He played the sheriff role toward the ever shrinking world because he wanted to maintain his reputation as “savior” having saved his parents England and France twice in the last 100 years.
By 2000, America’s consumerism addiction caused him to go into such deep debt that he was forced to start selling his house to feed his addiction.
America, like a drug addict became more and more unproductive, lazy, degenerate, and aggressive. It became unreliable, and all those who were captivated with the wonder boy who used his freedom so well to become so prosperous and influential and admired turned out to be just like a drug addict before dying. In compassion, they all agreed to have no more dealings with America until it sobers up and stays sober.
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