From Human Migration To America

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The United States wasn’t what it is now. Have you wonder how the United States came to be? Millions of year ago North America was just a piece of land that didn’t have no type of human life on it. During the last glacial period, enough of the earth's water became frozen in the great ice sheets covering North America and Europe to cause a drop in sea levels. Making the Bering land bridge. The bridge became a route of human migration to the Americas from Asia about 20,000 years ago. That’s how the first people came to what is now the United States of America. Soon after that the first explores came to America, The first explore to come to America was Christopher Columbus He landed at an Indian village there was in that place and discovered

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