HIST 1F96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beringia, Conspicuous Consumption, Crop Rotation
Document Summary
Great ice age (30 000 12 000 bc) drops ocean levels between asia and north. Hunting and gathering tribes follow game down ice-free corridor (exposed land) along eastern side of the rocky mountains not a conscious decision, happens over thousands of years. Population disperses and eventually reach as far as the tip of south america again, takes thousands of years. 8 000 bc, glaciers retreat and ocean levels rise submerges the bering land. Native societies develop isolated for 10 000 years developed their own culture, didn"t develop the same way, or at the same speed of, the europeans (esp. the inability to fight off european diseases: creation stories. Tribes appoint youths with good memory skills to act as historians no form of written word, everything was passed on by word of mouth. All creation stories assert tribes are indigenous to na and sa.
