LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE CHICAGO
RIVER
The Northwest
Territory
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/
Human societies are shaped significantly by their
natural environment
This environment
- involves a complicated - only partly understood interaction between the solid earth, hydrosphere
(oceans, lakes, rivers, …), atmosphere & biosphere
(including humans)
- changes over time in ways that we only partly
understand and can affect societies significantly
- is affected in both positive and negative ways - often
unpredicted - by human actions
Changing environment has affected
societies
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Vikings settled Greenland ~ 1000 AD,
settlement died out ~ 1400 AD
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/index.html
And
will do
so in
the
future
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Use Chicago to examine how societies
are shaped significantly by their natural
environment
Chicago – the only easy access by water
from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi
1688
River
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Illinois State
Museum
Great Lakes
Atlas
This situation arose from changes in
Earth’s climate
The Great Lakes formed
Great Lakes Atlas
16,000 years ago
And the area has
evolved since
Illinois
State
Museum
1831
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Wisconsin Historical
Society