From Farming to Frenzy: Scoundrels & Steely Eyes by

1000 BCE

jr4vhxsh6n — 2024-12-05 03:02:08 UTC

Indigenous societies of "America" have mastered the companion planting of the Three Sisters, producing enough to both feed themselves and generate surplus for trading with other groups.

800 CE

jr4vhxsh6n — 2024-12-05 03:02:08 UTC

At a confluence (of the Mississippi, Missouri, & Illinois Rivers), Mississippian mound builders densely populate Cahokia (perhaps exceeding 20,000 inhabitants); this settlement strained the limits of the era's farming practices, though the population seems to've rivaled that of present-day London.

1613

jr4vhxsh6n — 2024-12-05 03:02:08 UTC

Jamestown--first of the European settlements--introduces wild Bermuda tobacco via one John Rolfe; he arrives after much the place is wracked by classic colonial duplicity (with the natives) and no little starvation (survived, partially, with the assistance of cannibalism). European agricultural techniques "take root" in the New World.

1600s-1700s

jr4vhxsh6n — 2024-12-05 03:02:08 UTC

Large plantations have gobbled up much of the south, their cancerous growth relying mostly on 1) hostilities with the indigenous due to incessant land grabbing and 2) African slaves who were forced to produce cash crops like cotton (and that tobacco).

1776

jr4vhxsh6n — 2024-12-05 03:02:08 UTC

"America" becomes a thing, forever branding subsequent events as "American". This, of course, includes the pending revolution(s)...which were driven by a desperate need to make more money than yesterwhen. No matter who had to suffer whilst that occurred--kids included, as Samuel Slater's "vertically integrated" factory system attested (re: 1790)...

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