USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does the land bridge theory explain?
A
How Native Americans learned to farm
B
Why glaciers may have caused water levels to drop.
C
How early people may have migrated from Asia to the Americas.
D
Why animals such as mammoths may have become extinct.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Scientists one theorized that the ancestors of today’s Native Americans reached North America by walking across this land bridge and made their way southward by following passages in the ice as they searched for food. New evidence shows that some may have arrived by boat, following ancient coastlines.

Detailed explanation-2: -"According to the Land Bridge Theory, Native Americans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge that formed during the Ice Age.” The First Americans Explanation for Kids. “They were hunter-gatherers, and they didn’t live in America.

Detailed explanation-3: -As of 2008, genetic findings suggest that a single population of modern humans migrated from southern Siberia toward the land mass known as the Bering Land Bridge as early as 30, 000 years ago, and crossed over to the Americas by 16, 500 years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -The theory that the Americas were populated by humans crossing from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge was first proposed as far back as 1590, and has been generally accepted since the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-5: -The land bridge theory states that early animals and people traveled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that was exposed during the Ice Age. Today, these two lands are separated by a stretch of water called the Bering Strait.

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