HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beringia, Heretica, Columbian Exchange
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Totally free of human influence until 35,000; from 35,000 until 10,000 years ago, migration took place. People got to the americas from walking across the bering land bridge; it connected. I(cid:271)eria a(cid:374)d alaska; today it"s a waterway, the bering strait. People were asians, they originated from china. Once the ice age ended, the bridge melted, and the people were here to stay. There were about 20 million people living in mexico. People traveled through central america and all the way down through south america. Cultural areas: arctic, subarctic, northwest coast, plateau, great basin, california, southwest, plains, eastern woodlands northeast, eastern woodlands southeast, They were hunters and gatherers until agriculture was invented. First crop people began to grown in western hemisphere was corn (maize) Agriculture was invented 7-8 thousand years ago. Once agriculture was invented, they were no longer nomadic. The people could stay in one place and grow crops. La(cid:272)ked (cid:862)(cid:271)ar(cid:374)yard a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als(cid:863) (horses, cows, sheep, hogs, etc.
