Many people believe that the great Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, others believe that he was only the first European to travel there, yet it turns out neither statements are correct, he was in fact second to Leif Erikson who travelled across nearly four centuries years before Columbus [http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/leif-eriksson]. Although Erikson was the first european, it is now widely believed that the first people to inhabit the Americas ‘descended from northeast Asia, arriving over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska some 12,000 years ago and then migrating across North and South America’ [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0903_030903_bajaskull.html].
The first hunter and gatherer tribe from northeast Asia were experiencing a new climate and habitat entirely, so this would have taken a lot of adaption in their everyday …show more content…
‘Some human groups adapt to a new way of life. Others go after the bison’ [http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab63#ixzz3n8mZaeVA]. For those natives that decided to pursue a new way of life learnt quickly that they would have to adapt their means of gathering food, they soon discovered that ‘plants of all kinds grow more easily in the new temperate zones’, they also ‘learned that they could grow these plants where they wanted by collecting and planting the seeds from these wild plants’. As well as their new found farming skills, the natives would also go on to learn to domesticate animals, such as llama and
The first hunter and gatherer tribe from northeast Asia were experiencing a new climate and habitat entirely, so this would have taken a lot of adaption in their everyday …show more content…
‘Some human groups adapt to a new way of life. Others go after the bison’ [http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab63#ixzz3n8mZaeVA]. For those natives that decided to pursue a new way of life learnt quickly that they would have to adapt their means of gathering food, they soon discovered that ‘plants of all kinds grow more easily in the new temperate zones’, they also ‘learned that they could grow these plants where they wanted by collecting and planting the seeds from these wild plants’. As well as their new found farming skills, the natives would also go on to learn to domesticate animals, such as llama and