Diamond's Societal Collapse
Climate Change
Human Impact on Earth
Political, Social, Cultural, and Economic Factors
Hostile Relationships with Nations
Friendly Relationships with Nations
"Creeping Normalcy" or "Landscape Amensia"
Montana weed species crisis
Failure of adaptation
The Vikings
Nonliterate Societies
Greenland Norse Culture
Cuban Missle Crisis
cost Montana 200 million dollars a year
Destroyed resources they depended on without producing it back. Consumed resources to make charcoal and iorn.
Poeple failed to record past decsions
Greenland Norse vs the Inuit's/Eskimos
Greenland Norse and Norway
This led to deforestation and soil erosion
Collapse of the Greenland Norse
Climate got colder
Climate slowly changes without people realizing it
The Norse's, Inuit's, and Eskimos shared land
They had trade with eachother
Their trade dwindled when Norway got weaker and sea ice got between Greenland and Norway.
Inuit's killed the Norse
Commitment to a christian society
Invested heavily in cathedrals
Montana vs friendly states
More than half of Monatanas year income is not earned within Montana but other states
Montana is vulnerable to the rest of the U.S
Repeat the same mistakes
Almost led into a nuclear cold war between the U.S and the Soviet Union