HIS311Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Cabot, Smallpox, Northwest Passage
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Portugal establishing connections between north america and the outside world focus on europe, most important event is the one that did not happen richest and most populous country on earth during 15th century was china. Looking at a table of countries of the 15th century, the likely colonizer of na would be china rather than a collection of western european countries. This event that did not happen means that canadian history has a european focus but asia will reemerge after the 19th century. The human beings that lived in na and sa are all immigrants. Basically the americas are populated from siberia. We tend to believe that most of the inhabitants of the americas came some time 13-14-15 thousand years ago. We tend to believe that they came over a land bridge between alaska and siberia. Archeologists tend to believe that immigrants followed either the paci c coast or down the.
