HIS263Y1 Lecture : we have lived here since the world began
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We have lived here since the world began": notion that indigenous/aboriginals inhabitants were primitive and unchanging, the opposite is true, rather they are complex and sophisticated witnessed considerable change over time, the way of the land. Americas as a whole: as high as 100 m: population in americas as a whole concentrated in warmer and more fertile environment. Northern north america: 500, 000-2 m: concentrated on the pacific coast. Americas between 50, 000 10,000 years ago. Impact of disease: measles, small pox: diseases ravaged the populations. So devastating were these diseases that by the early 20th c, as much as 95% had been eradicated: the absence of people were caused by these diseases that dissemated the indigenous population. When the last ice age recedes (in southern ontario/western new york) was sparsely populated. Due to the cold climates primarily relied on the hunting of caribou. As a result of the end of the ice age temperatures began to warm.
