Environmental Transformation In Colonial North America

The most significant forces and factors that drove and contributed to the environmental transformation in colonial North America in the United State would be; the mercantilist system, and adapting to the natural environmental. The transformations of this products were extreme contributing to the biological factors by helping the colonial North America survive and adapt to the environment. On the other hand the cultural forces and factor were not a big part of the transformation in the early environment, yet this transformation matter a lot and were primarily the products of biological or cultural forces and factors because they manage to help the people survive. One of the significant forces and factor that drove and contribute to the environmental transformation was the …show more content…
In the lecture the mercantilist system was explained as, “The colonial environment existed in North America, they got comedies back in their country and will transform into goods” (Lecture). One of the biggest imports they were capitalizing was the Cod fish, this fish was pretty big it usually weighted about 20 pounds and it had a lot of meat to feed several people, when they traded it and imported they called it the “Grand Bank”. Looking back at the lecture, “They also commodify the beaver in early trade colonization because thy needed the fur” (Lecture). We can see here that the mercantilist system impacted and contribute to the environmental transformation by helping the people with trading skills to survive. The other significant forces and factors that contributed to the environment transformation is the way you adapt to the nature environment. During this time the colonist needed to be able to adapt to the environment like the forest and new places. In our lecture, it said “Forest, they saw commodities of wood and used it a lot that