Q#1.What set the stage for North American History?

The geological and geographical conditions that set the stage for the North
American history can be traced back to as much as 225 million years ago, when
chunks of terrain began to drift away from what once existed as a colossal
continent known as Pangaea. In this dismantle copious landscapes that now
belong to North America where created, but perhaps the most influential event to
set the stage for North American history has to be The Great Ice Age. During the
time The Great Ice Age happened some 35,000 years ago, the Ice Age solidified
much of the world oceans into enormous glaciers, lowering the level of the sea.
Once the sea level decreased , it unveiled a land bridge connecting Eurasia with
North America in what is now known to be the present-day Bering Sea between
Siberia and Alaska. During the existence of this bridge small nomadic herds
immigrated from side to side this continued for 250 centuries in which the
American continent began to slowly populate. Eventually the ice age ended and
the sea level arose again and the bridge disappeared. With the bridge now gone
the people where now isolated but with the climatic warming that melted the
bridge, also made way for ice less valleys to travel creating various
opportunities for further immigration.The Ice Age not only helped populate North
America but it also shaped it to be what we know it like today.
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