Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: National Energy Program, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Beringia

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2010A/B
• Professor: Mosicki

Document Summary

Arrival of the first people in north america. The colonization of north america by france and england. The influx of people from eastern europe. Hunters from old world (the eastern hemisphere) were the first to arrive about 40,000 years ago. They crossed from bering land bridge from sibera to alaska and continued east. As the continental ice in north america began to retreating, hunters moved south. Travelled among the ice-free corridor that developed along the rockies. Hunted mammoths until extinction and switched to fish and meats. Revised diet allowed certain people to remain in specific geographic regions. This marked the beginning of more social units that became the forerunners of tribes. The laurentide ice sheet began retreating from nunavut about 5000 years ago. After this point groups of sea hunters advanced east. The thule people settled in this area about 100 years ago they are ancestors of the. Indigenous and europeans occur in north america from late 1400s 1600s.