Native American Land Bridge

1. The Native Americans were able to explore and settle the Americas by the 600 mile wide “land bridge.” The land bridge was made up of massive glaciers that stretched from Northern Siberia to Alaska. The Native Americans actually lived on the Bering land bridge for 15,000 years, but once the last ice age ended the land bridge flooded which caused many Native Americans to migrate to regions of the Americas. After arriving in the Americas different groups of people began to spread out across the land and claim their own space. Although, there is much controversy about how accurate the “land bridge” was recent studies done by archaeologists show that the Native Americans must have separated from them. Archaeologists performed a study with 600 …show more content…
The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of diseases,food, animals and plants between the new world, the Americas, and old world, the Europeans. The Columbian Exchange began shortly after Columbus reached America in 1492. It lasted up to 4 years and ultimately improved both The Americas and Europeans agriculture, led to many advancements and introduced many different kinds of food plants and animals to the different cultures. The one major down side of the exchange was the transferring of horrid diseases that affected both the Native Americans and the Europeans tremendously. Some positive aspects were that the Americans gave the Europeans avocados, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, turkeys, etc, which introduced them to new culture, food and overall improved their agriculture. Additionally, the Americans gave the Europeans rubber, tobacco and cotton. In return, the Europeans gave the Americans coffee, chicken, bananas, rice, sugar cane, tulips, horses, etc. Overall, the goods that were traded between the new and old both benefited each other and led to positive outcomes. On the flip side, diseases from Europe such as smallpox spread into the Americas killing almost 90% of the population. Lastly, the Americans transferred the disease called syphilis to the Europeans which led to population decrease as …show more content…
Some technological advances that helped Columbus and Hudson make it to America were advances in map-making which helped the men to make their route more accurate, advances in shipbuilding which helped to increase the size of ships, improved sail designs and improved the ship's design which ultimately made the ship sail faster and smoother. Additionally, navigational devices such as the astrolabe helped make long voyages much easier. Some Economic conditions in Europe that encouraged people to explore overseas was trade. Basically, they thought of it as the more land you have the more opportunities you have for trade and the more countries you could trade with. Overall, the Europeans wanted to gain money and by owning more land, more money would come your way through