America: Past and Present Notes Chapter 1
Chapter 1: New World Encounters Native American Histories before Conquest Columbus did not really discover the new world-more connected Africa, Europe and the Americas The People of the Americans came 15 to 20 thousand years before any European did. Receding water created a large land bridge connected North America and Asia -now submerged underwater in the Bering Sea. Modern Scientists call this ? Beringia? Nomadic People crossed first--Spear-Throwing Paleo-Indians that hunted wooly mammoths and mastodons.