1. Unit 2: Human Migration 1830-1914

2. Homo erectus was a traveler!
Homo erectus began migrating to southerly parts of Eurasia sometime after about 1.8 million years ago.
200k yrs ago
Today
Big Eras 3-9
10k
1.8 mil. yrs ago
27k
Big Era 1
Big Era 2
Homo erectus

3. Migrations of Homo sapiens
Siberia
40,000 years ago
Europe
40,000 years ago
North America
12,000-30,000
years ago
Southwest Asia
100,000 years ago
Oceania
1600 B.C.E.-500 C.E.
Human Origins
200, ,000
years ago
Australia
as many as 60,000
years ago
Chile
12, ,000
years ago
Possible coastal routes of human migration
Possible landward routes of human migration
Migrations in Oceania
For what reasons were these people moving?

4. What about migrations in the time period we are studying?

5. I. Influence of Transportation and Communication
Fossil fuels were used to power ships and trains
Move more cargo
Move cargo faster
Electronic communications increased due to steam-driven printing press and telegraph/telephone
Communicate more quickly
Raise awareness about both opportunities and trouble

6. In general, Europeans who left Europe either temporarily or permanently went to regions with similar temperate climates
North America
New Zealand
South Africa
Australia
Asian and African migrants went to more tropical latitudes
Looked for jobs in mines, plantations and commerce
II. Migration

7. EVERYONE STAND UP!!!!
If you were born in Collbran, sit down If you were born in Grand Junction, sit down If you were born in Colorado, sit down If you were born in the US, sit down
If you were not born in Colorado, why did your parents move here? Where do your grandparents live? Where did they used to live? How and why did they arrive at their current location? What factors cause people to move? Brainstorm as a class.

8. Break up into 2 groups
Group A A group of space explorers that has gone to Mars and established a small colony there.
Group B A group that has built an underwater colony in the Indian Ocean
As a group, determine the factors that would have to be present in order to move from your area to the other.
If you, personally, were forced to choose between being in one of these groups, which would you pick and why? (Answer with more than one being cooler than the other!)

9. III. Communication and Migration
Ways in which people move things (products, livestock, mail)
Ways in which people exchange ideas
In previous eras, things could only be moved by natural-existing power
Human or animal muscle
Wind
Water current
Goods and information could only move as fast as nature allowed
Physical endurance
Weather

10. IV. Energy for Transportation
In this era, humans learn how to create energy for transportation
Steam pumps for mining
Portable engines for boats
Portable engines for railroads
These developments increased the demand for fossil fuels
Coal provided a seemingly unlimited source of power
Long distance travel became more practical

11. V. Energy for Communication
Humans learned how to exchange ideas rapidly as well
Telegraph invented
First trans-Atlantic cable laid in 1858
Telephone invented
Rapid, long-distance communication became accessible to more people
Steam-powered printing press developed
1,100 sheets per hour
Cheaper to print
Taxes on newspapers decreased
More access to news and information
V. Energy for Communication

12. VI. Impacts Environmental Social Mining and pollution
People encountered other populations through newspaper or travel
Ideas spread faster and more widely

13. Your turn…
If coal made travel and mechanized industry possible, why have we sought other sources of energy?
Have there been any technological developments in recent years that have had an impact similar to that of the telegraph and the telephone?
The advancement to electronic communication allowed information to travel around the world in a matter of days instead of months. What impact would this have had on business? Social life? Politics? The environment?