HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Cabot, The Columbian Exchange, Deep Time
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* indigenous america and global human migration * Beringia was exposed for a thousand of years. Beringia was a possible route that asians took to travel to north america. There is also a possibility that asians travelled by ocean to north america: coastal ocean voyages. Oral tradition is passed on from generation to generation, while oral history is not an oral story that is passed on. The catholic church taught people that . The deep time scales are really complicated for people. Older than the oldest human civilization: 14,500 vs. 400. Before the invention of agriculture, they arrived; big difference between oldest human civilization to immigrants who immigrate to america today. The world was utterly different, it was colder than the weather we experience today, and the geographical aspects were utterly different to what we see/view today. Did not transplant a civilization or society; created new civilizations indigenous to the americas.
