The Earliest Americans

(Period: Early America)

Synopsis:

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Historical synopsis courtesy of A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times by Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and the former United States Information Agency (1953-1999).

Key Events:

• People crossing the Bering sea, over Beringia, into Alaska in North America.

Key People:

• Hohokum- one of the earliest groups of villagers in what is now the United States.

Key Places:

• Bering Sea - body of water separating Asia and the Americas
• Beringia - the land bridge that joined Asia and the Americas for a short period of history.

Vocabulary:

• Glaciers - a very large and slowly moving mass of ice.