USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which 2 continents were connected by the land bridge?
A
South America and North America
B
Asia and North America
C
Africa and Europe
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The result was a land bridge connecting the continents of Asia and North America in the present day Bering Strait area and extending into the Bering and Chukchi seas.

Detailed explanation-2: -This map shows how a land bridge connected the continents of Asia and North America when the most recent ice age lowered sea levels.

Detailed explanation-3: -The settlement of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26, 000 to 19, 000 years ago).

Detailed explanation-4: -They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Bering Strait, Russian Proliv Beringa, strait linking the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea and separating the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point.

Detailed explanation-5: -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).

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