Beringia Research Paper

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What is Beringia? Beringia, also known as, The Bering Strait, is a massive landmass that the first americans crossed over to get to the Americas during the first Ice Age, about 2.6 million years ago. The time period known as Pleistocene Ice Age is when the first Ice Age happened. Many glaciers covered the sea and lowered the sea level about 300 feet. The land that is now covered by water became dry land. This resulted in the massive landmass that connected the continents of Asia and North America. This land bridge formed a flat, grassy, treeless plain that the first Americans used to migrate to the Americas. When the Earth passed into its climate warming cycle, the glaciers began to melt. The melted water levels rose, and submerged Beringia once again.
When the land bridge was still surfaced, it acted as a bridge for different species of animals, such as, the woolly mammoth, brown bear, moose, and horses. Birds, fishes and other aquatic mammals created migration patterns that they still use to this day. The humans, who became the first Americans, crossed this bridge following the animals. Unlike the migration of the Europeans, they did not cross to populate another continent, the migrated in search of food and shelter, the basic necessities for life. After the submission of The Bering Strait, the people …show more content…

In June of 1741, two ships departed Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy on the Second Kamchatka Expedition. During this expedition, Berings boat, St, Poytr (St, Peter), landed on the shores of Alaska. He died at the age of 60 on a small, inhabited island during the winter of 1741. So, because of his death on that island, The Bering Strait, Bering Island, the Bering Sea, and Bering Glacier were all named after him. Eric Hulten, a swedish explorer, was the first to suggest that the giant land mass that he believed existed under the ocean, should be named

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