North American Civilization Paper Environmental Studies Essay
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Sea levels dropped so drastically that the Bering Strait became a broad, grassy plain. Across that land bridge between the two continents both humans and animals escaped icebound Siberia for ice-free Alaska. Whenever the first migration took place, the movement of Asians to America continued, even after 8000 B.C.E., when world temperatures rose again and the water from melting glaciers flooded back into the ocean, submerging the Bering Strait.” The migrations continued southward and eastward on to the greater portions of North America and eventually all the way down to Tierra del Fuego in modern-day Argentina through South America.