Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Western Alienation In Canada, Eastern Hemisphere, Thule People
11 Jan 2018
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Three in uential events that have shaped canada"s history: The arrival of the rst people in north america. The colonization of north america by france and england. The in ux of people from eastern europe. Hunters from the old world (the eastern hemisphere) were the rst to arrive about 40,000 years ago. They crossed the bering land bridge from siberia to alaska and the continued eastwards. The land bridge was 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. They commonly hunted mammoths with pointed spears. As mammoths became extinct, the rst people began shifting to a diet mixed with meat (buffalo and caribou), sh, and plants. The revised diet allowed the rst people to remain in a speci c geographic region.
