how did humans manage to inhabit america before invention of air conditioners?

Question

With current extremely hot or extremely cold conditions, I dont imagine possibility of life without air conditioning..
How did early settlers live in these harsh climatic conditions?

Answer 1

Okay, the guy who claims that we "evolved" while we were settling in America is way off. Evolution is a process that takes thousands of years to occur.

Read a history book, it tells all about how people survived these harsh conditions. For example, many settlers on the plains lived in mud built homes. These homes kept them cool during the summer, but warm in the winter. Many people also lived close to water sources, which helped them keep cool.

Answer 2

I live in Arizona, and here in the Phoenix area, native American people were anciently irrigating this area and living year round. The Adobe houses helped and I am sure they drank water a lot.

When white folks got here, farming here was not for the faint of heart. Early settlers would farm here and leave their families in Northern AZ (very mountainous and cooler). They would commute home in off months. I wonder if AZ was cooler then because I have seen a pic of Mesa in the 1920's with about 3 or 4 inches of snow. That hasn't happened since.

Answer 3

HAHA. great question. I was outside the other day and thanking god that this was the 21st century.

Adaptation. Key word. They had to adapt to the environment involunteerily by their bodies and by using what was around them. The body does a lot of adjusting to outside temperatures and I can assure you that they were sweating to cool off from the heat. Some cultures used things like dung and rubbed it all over their bodies for a cooling affect. Others used plants and rubbed it on their bodies. Some humans stayed within their dwellings during the peak hours of heat and came out when it was cooler. WHen those people adjusted to it, they didn't seem to notice that it was hot outside.

You and I are different because we have adapted to AC systems. If you were in a third world country , you might not have ACs. I took a trip to India and a native person came to my hotel room which had AC, and they were shivering!! They thought the AC being on was freezing cold and it wasnt even on that low!!! When you and I go outside, we arent adapted to dwelling in a real hot or cold weather cause of technology and so we notice it more!

Hope this helps! Good day!!!

Answer 4

They built efficient houses and buildings that kept naturally cool : high ceilings, louvred shutters in front of all the windows, wrap-around porches, ventilation openings and chimneys, inner courts with fountains, white-painted, thick walls. Look at the traditional architecture in the Deep South and the desert regions, or Northern Africa. Now they're built again as "Passive solar houses".

Answer 5

a million. by resting in the course of the most well loved component of the day - even in Australia in the course of the early 19th century, convicts had a wreck between 11am - 2pm on a daily basis they worked. 2. Sitting very nevertheless - no funny tale. each and every circulation expends ability. one component you study turning out to be up in an fairly warm climate, esp places like Africa (Sth Africa, Zimbabwe...) is whenever you could, basically take a seat and guard ability. 3. As now, ingesting a lot of water. 4. again, as now, eating warm extraordinarily spiced ingredients that make you sweat in international locations with intense humidity. even as that's fairly humid it would want to be not ordinary to sweat, and also you run the prospect of overheating. warm extraordinarily spiced nutrition makes you sweat and cools you down.

Answer 6

The same way people did with other regions of the world. Their bodies adopted to the climate. This is known as evolution, your body changes so that you can survive in a given environment.

Answer 7

lots of ways to keep cool ... in the southwest they lived either in stone houses like in Arizona or in adobe houses like at Casa Grande or houses in California. In desert areas there were a lot fewer people and they would spend time in houses that either were of mud or cave-like, or else in houses that were merely brush and allowed air to flow through.

Please remember, also, a/c didn't exist for most people until about thirty or forty years ago. That isn't all that long ago. People just learned to cope. People are amazingly adaptable, when they have to be.

Answer 8

you are aware that human beings live in diverse climates throughout the world. examples being Eskimos, tribes in tropical islands, dwellers in bayous, nomads of Arabia, etc. etc. another thing, that human beings have been around for thousands of years without the aide of such things as central heating and A/C.

what is so extreme about the current weather patterns? the patterns have altered very much since i was born in 1976.

it's called adapating to your enviroment and doing your best to survive and not being a sissy who worries about whether it's too hot out to do anything. i make the assumption that you don't do real work in terms of physical effort.

Answer 9

PETA may not like this but furs and leather are the only things that made life possible on this continent!!and in passing slave and cotton-growing was a later alternative to that system of survival ahnd tobacco was the only product that made the colonies initially viable!!GOT FUR?

Answer 10

when extremely hot they wore little clothing -- when extremely cold they built fires --