- relocated from Asia around 30000 years ago.
- as a path thawed through the ice they made their way southeast.
- then further east towards Quebec.
- other groups move south as far as modern Chile mountains.
- many groups that settled along the banks of the Lawrence .
- those who settled created villages of 1500 to 2000 inhabitants and were farmers while anoth group. was living in forests and hunting tracking game to get food from their families.
- the Inuit lived as far north as Hudson bay and Ungava bay .
- both the hunters and the Inuit were nomads who lived off the land .
- the three groups ( farmers , hunters and Inuit )formed several nations.
- some of these nations traded goods such as flint for arrows and spears to goods like furs and fishing products.
- the nations to the far south were called the Inca, Aztecs and Mayans. after the English and french invasions this way of dividing the land no longer existed because of the epidemic that was brought by the Europeans and that wiped out most of the native population.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
How did Native people occupy the territory before the arrival of the Europeans
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