North America's Culture Affecting International Business

1.The geological and geographical conditions that set the stage for North American history is that the earth formed slowly,10 million years ago North America was sculpted ,and the continent was anchored in a north eastern corner by a canadian shield.Around 2 million years ago the great ice age began,the ice sheets were about 2 miles thick crept from the polar region , in North America the glaciers carpeted most of canada and the U.S., parts of europe,Asia,and the americas werecovered with a blanket of snow.

About 225 million years ago, according to the theory of “Pangaea,” the world was once a single supercontinent that contained all the dry land. Approximately 10 million years ago, North America was shaped by the majestic Canadian Shield. About 2 million years ago, in North America, the grand glaciers laid the land of Canada and the United States, southbound as far as from Pennsylvania all the way to the Pacific Northwest. Recently, about 135 million to 25 million years ago, four massive ranges—the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coast Ranges, arose in western North America. About 35000 years ago, the ancestors of the Native Americans, the nomadic Asian hunters, first

Millions of years ago according to scientist the whole world was one large mass called Pangea. When this mass began to split, it divided the Americas from the Eastern World along with the people on it. This resulted in tens of thousands years apart from one another which led to different developments on each continent. After all these years though a man named Columbus’s discovers the Americas in 1492. As soon as he took

In 1492 Columbus discovered the “new world” which is now known as the Americas today. Furthermore, in the 1700 people from the English origin traveled across the sea to North America to start a new life. When they got to North America the people settled in two regions, the Chesapeake and the New England region. Even though these people came from the same place they thrived in two different societies. Some of the countless reasons why these two regions are different from each other are religion, ways of life, and economics.

Starting as humble continent with simple peoples, North and Central America developed rapidly, once the Europeans touched down. WIthin a few centuries, this quiet continent became a booming beacon of industrialization. WIth everyone from the Dutch to the Spaniards, legions of Europeans came flocking to this new land with hopes of gaining land, power, and religious freedom.

During the 17th century, North America was born by English settlements known as Jamestown and Plymouth. The two settlements found ways to adapt to the new world. However, due to the places they landed, and the type of people they were, they had similarities and differences with each other.

The United States and Mexico together take up the majority of the habitable lands of North America. In 1763, the Viceroyalty of New Spain controlled most of

Long before the Europeans discovered the Americas, the North American region went through a lot of geological and geographic changes. Originally there was just one super large mass of land but overtime that land broke apart forming continents. Shifting and folding of the earths crust formed mountains across North America and the rest of the world. One major change that the region of North America went through was during the period of the Great Ice Age. The Great Ice Age took place 2 million years ago. During the Great Ice Age, large glaciers covered North America (along with other continents). When the glaciers disappeared 10,000 years ago they left North America new and transformed. The changes that the glaciers made were forming of lakes,

Ten million years ago North America began to take form from the Canadian Shield. Then, eight million years later the Great Ice Age formed the Bering Land Bridge, which allowed nomadic people to cross from Eurasia to North America. Once the Ice Age ended the sea levels rose again, and the Americas were isolated. However, that did not stop the Americas from growing. Before the Europeans came to America, there were possibly fifty-four million people inhabiting the Americas.

By the time European explorers arrived in America, scholars estimate that over 50 million people were already living in the Americas, with 10 million in the area later to be known as the United States. As time passed, these Native Americans traveled from Alaska to the south and east of America, adapting to the new landscape around them. In order to keep track of the different groups, anthropologists and geographers divided them into “culture areas,” which are groupings of contiguous peoples who share similar habitats and characteristics. North America, excluding Mexico, is broken into 10 separate culture areas: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Plains, the Southwest, the Great Basin, California, the Northwest Coast and the Plateau (Native American Cultures).

America is situated on the continent of North America, in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet Earth, 4.6 light years southwest of Alpha Centauri. The local population is known as Homo Sapiens (Humans). The indigenous population of this land are known as American-Indians. Around 500 years ago small boats arrived from the east bringing both disease and guns; both of which were instrumental in both wiping out a large percentage of the native people and creating the modern America.

America came from every continent which is symbolized by the seven points on her crown that represent each continent.

The shape and geography of the Americas was formed over hundreds of millions of years by processes including continental drifting and the Great Ice Age. Through the exposure of the Bering Land Bridge, early immigrants reached the Americas and created diverse populations and cultures. Agriculture, especially the cultivation of corn/maize, played an important role in these early civilizations. European desires for Asian goods sparked an interest in finding a faster route to Asia, which led Christopher Columbus to land in the New World. The Columbian Exchange transformed life in both the New and Old Worlds with the introduction of new animals, plants, and diseases. With Spain and Portugal leading, the European countries began

The North American continent is located within the Northern, and Western Hemisphere bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the East, South America to the Southeast, Arctic Ocean to the North, and Pacific Ocean to the west. North America precedes Africa and Asia in largeness since it accommodates twenty three states with diverse population and cultures. North America comprises of 41 countries with United States of America having the highest population and Montserrat (UK) having the lowest population. The major cities of United States of America are notably, New York, Ottawa, Washington, New Orleans, and Detroit. These States have different features that shape environmental and economic growth. North America therefore, has various critiques for both human and physical geography.

The five weeks of the Cultural aspects of international business course have been a truly enriching life experience for me. I must admit that I was a little skeptical about the value proposition of the course as I thought this was going to be one of those purely theoretical pro-diversity lectures with no potential for practical application. However, the fact that Professor Lane co-authored the textbook intrigued me so much (I have never had a Professor who actually wrote the textbook for the course) that I decided to give it a chance and sign-up for the course.