Dia and CommitedSoul, These two questions are already discussed in the very beginning ov my notes.



At the height of the most recent Ice Age, about 35,000 years ago, much of the world‘s water was locked up in vast continental ice sheets. A land bridge as much as 1,500km wide connected Asia and North America. By 12,000 years ago, humans were living throughout much of the Western Hemisphere. The first Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia and were believed to have stayed in what is now Alaska for thousands of years. They then moved south into the land that was to become the United States. They settled along the Pacific Ocean in the Northwest, in the mountains and deserts of the Southwest, and along the Mississippi River in the Middle West.


Early Settlers in America
These early groups that settled in America are known as

 Hohokam
 Adenans
 Hopewellians
 Anasazi.

They built villages and grew crops. Some built mounds of earth in the shapes of
pyramids, birds, or serpents. Their life was closely tied to the land, and their society was clan-oriented and communal. Elements of the natural world played an essential part in their spiritual beliefs.


The 1st Europeans in America
The first Europeans to arrive in North America, at least the first for whom there is solid evidence were Norse. They traveled west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. It would be almost 500 more years before other Europeans reached North America and another 100 years after that before permanent settlements were established. The first explorers were searching for a sea passage to Asia. Others chiefly British, Dutch, French, and Spanish came later to claim the lands and riches of what they called the ―New World.



Refer to my notes from Pg # 19 to 25

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