FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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It’s the shortest distance between the North American continent and Denmark; medieval vikings made their way to Vinland across the straight in the 10th century CE
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It’s the isthmus that connects Central and South America; anthropologists and paleontologists summarize that humans originated there
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It is a waterway that separates present-day Siberia from present-day Alaska; historians theorize that humans made their way across a now vanished land bridge from Asia to North America
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Where’s the Bering Strait, and what does it have to do with the history of the North American continent? It’ a waterway that separates present day siberia from present day alaska. Historians theorize that humans made their way across a now vanished bridge from asia to north america.
Detailed explanation-2: -Located between Alaska and Russia, the Bering Strait is the only marine gateway between the icy Arctic and the Pacific Ocean. At its narrowest point, the strait is only 55 miles wide.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Bering Strait has a long history of being a connector. It connected Asia to the Americas via Beringia, also known as the Bering Land Bridge, during the Last Glacial Maximum. Indeed, many credit Beringia for enabling the first major human migration from Asia into the Americas some 20, 000-30, 000 years ago.
Detailed explanation-4: -A new study that reconstructs the history of sea level at the Bering Strait shows that the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35, 700 years ago, less than 10, 000 years before the height of the last ice age (known as the Last Glacial Maximum).