HIS150 Chapter 1: The New World
3 Jun 2020
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For years scholars believed that early migrations came from humans crossing over a land bridge over the bering strait into alaska 11,000 years ago. Clovis people : land migrants thought to come from a mongolian stock related to modern day siberians. Named for a town in new mexico where archaeologists discovered their tools. Some recent evidence suggests that some early migrants came from asia settled as far as chile and peru before people moved to north america by land. Archaic period: early history of humans in america beginning 8000 b. c. Soon developed fishing nets and tools, traps, baskets, and other plants. Early civilizations were in the south and central americas and mexico. From peru, created largest empire in the americas almost 2k miles. Developed administrative system, large network of roads and government system. Mesoamericans societies (people of mexico and south america) emerged. Emerged a. d. 800 in the yucatan peninsula in mexico.
