GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Little Havana, Zebulon Pike, United States Territorial Acquisitions
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Historically humans as a species, have always been on the move for one reason or another. To find food, water, shelter, various resources, a better life, curiosity, etc. ** during the pre-historic period people migrated looking for the basic necessities of life: food, water, shelter, etc. * the earliest humans most likely evolved in africa & se asia and. Periods of glaciation and inter-glaciation helped dictate some patterns of movement. Neanderthal humans and early stone age or paleolithic period humans. * at the end of last glaciation, ~10,000 - 12,000 years ago, faster changes and migration occurred and by this time the major land areas (except antarctica) had people, but not in large numbers. * with the 1st agricultural revolution migrations increase as the population increases and there is a need for more farmland to feed the growing population. * throughout eurasia, africa, & n-s america the expansion of people & of course, their culture increases.
