HIS 106 Lecture 1: HISTORY NOTES #1
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Migration: concepts of populating the americas: clovis first, crossing land bridge into alaska. Takes thousand of years: weapons used to kill bison. Called clovis weapons: named after the clovis people, none in canada or alaska so shows signs of migration. Found in projectile points: transportation, did not travel by boat, unattainable information because they traveled on ice caps and the ice is. Corresponding crafts asia america melted underwater now: findings. Seal hunters: no seal in france so they migrated to follow the seal. Took modern dna traced back to asia. 6: spanish had already invaded and colonized the americas. Seasonal so didn"t bring a lot of settlers: agriculture doesn"t work that well here. Too cold for crops growing season very short. In 1620 new france only had 85 people. They get worried and send over more people to permanently colonize new france: ends up being agricultural colony.
