Beringia During the last Ice Age, Beringia was a vast expanse of unglaciated terrain stretching from

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Beringia - During the last Ice Age, Beringia was
a vast expanse of unglaciated terrain stretching
from eastern Siberia to the Yukon. At its heart
lay the Bering Land Bridge.
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Beringia 15,000 Years Ago
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Compare and contrast todays bison to the bison
hunted by the nomads
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11,000 years ago
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8,000 Years Ago
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5,000 Years Ago
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What Europeans considered a "New World" was in
fact home to Native people for over 15,000 years
before the first Europeans landed on the eastern
shores of North America. Around A.D. 1000, the
medieval Norse (Vikings) established the first
European settlement, on the northern coast of
Newfoundland, but they only stayed for a brief
period.
A handful of Norse artifacts scattered across the
islands of the High Arctic and the remains of a
settlement at LAnse aux Meadows, Newfoundland,
suggest unequivocally that the Norse were present
in North America 500 years before Christopher
Columbus arrived in l492.
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The Norse used open ships that offered no
protection from the elements and lacked even the
most rudimentary navigational devices. So they
had to cross the North Atlantic island by island,
from Norway to North America. Each leg of the
journey was about 600 kilometers (about 375
miles).
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John Cabot claimed what he called Newfoundland in
North America for the British in 1497.
Although, it is now unclear whether Cabot landed
in current Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or Maine.
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How did he discover North America?
1.) He moved from his homeland of Italy to Spain
hoping to explore for the Spanish or Portuguese.
Neither was interested.
2.) Around 1495 he turned to King Henry VII of
England. Henry VII issued patent letters to Cabot
and his sons authorizing them to sail to all
parts
of the eastern, western and northern sea to
discover and investigate, whatsoever islands,
countries, regions or provinces of heathens and
infidels, in whatsoever part of the world placed,
which before this time were unknown to all
Christians.
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Replica of John Cabot's ship, the Matthew.
3. Cabots plan was to reach Asia by traveling
northward before heading west to shorten his
journey since lines of longitude are shorter at
the poles.
4. Like Columbus, hit an island (Canada) before
reaching Asia.
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Europeans who began to frequent the northeastern
region of North America were not settlers, but
fishers.
Newfoundland with its adjacent waters was
originally viewed as a cod fishery. It became a
useful and increasingly important supplement to
fisheries carried on in European waters
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On March 19, 1534, King Francis I of France
assigned Jacques Cartier the mission of
"undertaking the voyage of this kingdom to the
New Lands to discover certain islands and
countries where there are said to be great
quantities of gold and other riches."
The following April 20, the navigator from
Saint-Malo cast off with two ships and a crew of
61. Twenty days later he reached Newfoundland.
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this land should not be called New Land, being
composed of stones and horrible rocks. I did not
see one carload of earth and yet I landed at many
places. There is nothing but moss and short
stunted shrub.
Cartiers lack of success finding gold and a
waterway through the continent discouraged the
French. However, fishermen continued and trade
increased, especially for beaver pelts.
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In 1602 French King Henry IV made Samuel
de Champlain's mission clear
He was to explore the country called New France,
examine its waterways and then choose a site for
a large trading factory.
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Champlain established settlement at Port Royal on
eastern shore of the Bay of Fundy.
Champlain continued to explore waterways.
The colony became known as Acadia, which thrived
after a rocky start.
Because of its location near the Gulf of the St.
Lawrence River, Acadia became a key in
controlling fur trade and future riches.
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ENGLISH
1605 Acadia at Lasting 1607
Jamestown Port Royal Settlements in
Virginia
Weather Farmed traded Disease, famine
to survive
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