HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grand Banks Of Newfoundland, John Cabot, Columbian Exchange
14 Sep 2018
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North america was populated by billions of people. Some populace coastal societies, and others were complex hunter gatherers living in some of the harshest environments in the world. Fossil evidence of the early stages if human evolution is found in africa during back to 7 million years before the common era- famous skeletons. Half million years, the early homo sapiens didn"t go much further than that. Big break out started in 40,000 bce- start making small island hops, populating. As humans developed better technologies to adapt to colder climates they migrate towards to the american countries. From asia to north america across a landform that is no longer there- is there but is under water submerged. When the sea levels are higher it can be drowned. The land bridge- it is not so much a bridge, it is a land form that is no longer there. Archeology shows us much of the coast of were never covered by glaciers.
