HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Company Of One Hundred Associates, Triangular Trade, Helluland
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Movement of people around the world to canada (until 1608) To try to understand the longevity of people in north canada. As their instruments/technologies became more developed they started moving to the north. Closest passage between north america and asia is through. Beringia (earth was in a cooler period and ocean waters were locked up in glaciers, exposed this land/territory - sometimes called a land bridge, primary route, other route was short coastal voyages) Clovis sites (no archeological sites older than 12,000 years, which suggests that humans spread throughout north america quite rapidly) Oral tradition (the beginning of the earth - longevity of the species and the complexity of the populations that existed/diversity) European accounts (the belief that god create humans in a single instant - how can we discover humans in another place in the world - so they tried to gure out how people emerged in. 500,000 to 2,000,000 (process of colonization took a long time)
