Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Prairies, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Beringia
2 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Three influential events that have shaped canada(cid:495)s history: The arrival of the first people in north america. The colonization of north america by france and england. The influx of people from eastern europe. Hunters from the old world (the eastern hemisphere) were the first to arrive about 40,000 years ago. They crossed the bering land bridge from siberia to alaska and then continued eastward. The land bridge accessible at the time because sea level was much lower than it is today. As the continental ice in north america began retreating, descendants of the hunters pushed further south. They travelled along an ice-free corridor that developed along the foothills of the rocky mountains. They commonly hunted mammoths with pointed spears. As mammoths became extinct, the first people began shifting to a diet mixed with meat (buffalo and caribou), fish, and plants. The revised diet allowed the first people to remain in a spefic geographic region.
