Tag: colonizing
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PBS: The Ancient Tribes That Settled the Americas
PBS and the first Americans… how did they get here and when? As early humans spread out across the world, their toughest challenge was colonizing the Americas because a huge ice sheet blocked the route. It has long been thought that the first Americans were Clovis people, who arrived 13,000 years ago. But an underwater…
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BBC: America colonization ‘cooled Earth’s climate’
The BBC has a post about the effect of the colonization of America on the environment. A study by scientists from the University College London, UK claim that the colonization at the end of the 15th century killed so many native Americans, it disturbed Earth’s climate. The paper by Alexander Koch and colleagues was…
