FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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They were looking for gold and other wealth.
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They were following herds of wooly mammoth and hoped to find more food.
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Asia was too crowded and they hoped to find more space to farm.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Drought, flood, and temperature changes could certainly push people to move on. Climate change also affects the food supply, and anthropologists have assumed that people came to the Americas because they were following food on the hoof.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13, 000 to 13, 500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.
Detailed explanation-3: -People travelled by boat to North America some 30, 000 years ago, at a time when giant animals still roamed the continent and long before it was thought the earliest arrivals had made the crossing from Asia, archaeological research reveals today.
Detailed explanation-4: -Adult Woolly Mammoths could effectively defend themselves from predators with their tusks, trunks and size, but juveniles and weakened adults were vulnerable to pack hunters such as wolves, cave hyenas and large felines.