While this not take into consideration that there were about 100 Million Indigenous peoples living in the Americas in 1492, what a journey we have been on, especially the last 170 years! If you plot the speed human beings could travel since recorded history, it was the speed of a horse. In the middle of the 1800's, with the innovation of the steam engine, the speed human's could travel goes up like a parabolic curve! Something happened energetically, globally, in the 1840-1850's that caused an unprecedented, dramatic shift in all areas of human innovation and creativity!
