HIS311Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Ages, Northwest Passage
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The native nations of the americas and the european. Geography :the american continent is isolated from the rest of the world and separated by broad ocean except in two places (iceland). However the u. s. is not always separated from the rest of the world. During the ice age, the ice tended to absorb the water of ocean. The population of the americans are relatively self maintained. Isolation is the main characteristic of the americas. It takes a long and was impossible to get to other continent. The early middle age experienced a climatic warming. Climate was getting colder, greenland was more and more difficult to live in. Disease: there was very likely that greenland"s population becomes divested. Historians estimated that the chinese had the highest standard of living; the only problem was that china did not go across the pacific. China was isolated and this caused problem to china to develop. Technology: by the 1470s, ocean crossing vessels have improved.
