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Can someone shortly explain the story of the U.S.A? When did people first travel to the continent? Who owned it at first? Was there an independence war? Thanks
If you want to know about human habitation of North America, including what is today the United States, the story is complex as the further back we go the less clear history is.
Native Americans (also known as American Indians) are considered to be mostly from what today is Asia. Most Native Americans lived a hunter gatherer lifestyle, though some advanced to farming. Generally most in the United States were at about the level of the stone age, not having understanding of metallurgy.
South of the United States, and in parts of the United States at times, habitation by more advanced people occurred, with some knowledge of metallurgy. The record is spotty.
Migration from Asia in South America may have been preceded by migration of Polynesians. It appears Asian immigrants merged with and wiped out any true Polynesian culture that existed in South America. Though there are both genetic markers and some primitive records indicating early habitation by Polynesians. A problem with their story is it would indicate what today are Native Americans would have perpetrated a genocide against Polynesian Americans long before Europeans immigrated to the Americas. As a result, work in this area is difficult for various cultural reasons.
Immigration of humans to the Americas generally occurred just prior to, or at the onset of the current interglacial period which is known as the Holocene Epoch. Prior to that, most of the North American continent was glaciated and not habitable. The earth for the past few million years has been in an ice age, which is broken from time to time by interglacial periods.
Can someone shortly explain the story of the U.S.A? When did people first travel to the continent? Who owned it at first? Was there an independence war? Thanks
If you are TRULY interested in learning about the U.S., either open a history book (I'm sure that your library has one or more books) or Google the history of the United States of America on your computer.
But perhaps someone in here remembers the story and can explain it shortly. Thanks
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!
"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and Pangea
See ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!
It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will pause and start to go the other way.
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be heard
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating how we're here, they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy (Descartes or Deuteronomy)
It all started with the big bang!
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!
Thanks, Zot. When did the Europeans enter America?
There is evidence that "europeans" first traveled to the North American continent some 18,000 years ago, following the ice wall of the receding glacier of the last Ice Age***. These peoples then migrated southwards along the eastern coastline.
***(The fact of the northern hemisphere being glaciated, and the ice having begun to recede some 18,000+ years before the current age indicates that "global warming" began long ago, and humans had nothing to do with it...despite Al Gore's (and many other idiots') assertions to the contrary. Man did not cause "global warming", and man cannot stop "global warming". "Global warming" is merely the continuation of a natural trend.)
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Is it true that America was Spanish before the independence war?
Absolutely untrue. There were people of a number of countries colonizing the North American continent, French, German, British, etc. People from Spain did have a presence, particularly in the southwest and southeast, but this presence can in no way be considered sufficient to call America "Spanish".
"America" was first so-named by Martin Waldseemuller, a German, on his 1507 'world map'. He named it after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer variously in service to Spain and Portugal, who navigated the eastern shores of the "New World" during several voyages made between 1497 and 1504.
Contrary to some popular beliefs, the murderous scumbag Columbus did not discover America, nor did he ever set foot on North America, what is now the US of A. In fact, the Norse explorer Leif Erikson landed in what is now Canada some 500 years before Columbus was born.
Now, go follow up on this sh...er, stuff and do the rest of your homework on your own. Your instructor is not going to accept this if you don't have sources to back it up. Maybe you'll actually learn something while you're at it.
A bunch of sanctimonious religious zealots and commercial opportunists managed to cross the Atlantic. Eventually they joined forces, consulted a few Classical, French and English texts, and began to style themselves as an exceptional republic. Throw in some conquests, many lucky turns, and the sporadic actually wise decisions, and we had the beginnings of an empire. Then Europe imploded, and America was the last man left standing. Eventually the rest of the world has been trying to catch up, and now we have the 21st century.
Can someone shortly explain the story of the U.S.A? When did people first travel to the continent? Who owned it at first? Was there an independence war? Thanks
In terms of first coming to the North American continent, the oldest foreign settlement (i.e, prior to Columbus' arrival) is thought to be L'Anse aux Meadows, in the Canadian province Newfoundland and Labrador. It dates back to approximately the tenth century, while Columbus didn't arrive until 1492.
The oldest European settlement is thought to be Saint Augustine, while the oldest evidence of a human presence on the North American continent is a toss-up between the Buttermilk Creek complex and Ticul, Yucatán, in Mexico (dated at 700 years BCE).
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