GEO 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Terra Incognita, Terra Nullius, Beringia
4 Apr 2016
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Three influential events: arrival of the first people in north america. Old world countries exploring the world: colonization of north america by france and england. Clifford sifton was in change of settling most of the plains in canada and to protect from. American invasion: influx of people from central europe and czarist russia. There has also been an influx of asian and middle. First people eastern peoples: archeologists estimate north americas first people were old world hunters who arrived from the beringia land bridge 40,000. Remains of pottery, tools, and remains: the great melt beghan around 15000 years ago, old world hunters migrated to the, the corridor theory, the sea route theroy. Island hoping is one method in which they got across: paleo-indians. People were able to occupy the artic lands after thee melting of ice sheets and with the development of sea based hunting. Denbigh hunting is known as spear hunting.
