Introduction
Nowadays it’s difficult to find a place on the Earth where people wouldn’t go. But there were the times when the whole continents were discovered. I want to tell you about the discovery and colonization of America.
1. Discovery of America. Christopher Columbus, SB p.56
2. First Europeans in America. SB p.48
After Columbus’s discovery, a lot of people went to America to start a new life. They were called pilgrims. So, I would like to tell you one story about their life.
3. Your own information on early American history.
Conclusion
Дополнительная информация:
Vikings in North America
There is some evidence that Vikings. were on American continent before Christopher Columbus. Captain Leif Erikson reached the Island of Newfoundland in about 1000 AD. Vikings named their new discovery Vinland. The only Norse site yet discovered in North America is at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador. Later Vikings left their American colonies and didn't live there any more.
Заселение Америки первыми людьми
First People in America
The earliest people in America came from Siberia when there was an ice bridge across the Bering Strait. At the Ice Age on the territory of modern Bering Strait there were grassy plains. They connected Siberia with Canada. Scientists think that at the Ice Age, sometime after 20,000 years ago, a few thousand people arrived in Beringia from eastern Siberia. After that they moved to the south and reached South America.
The Bering land bridge closed about 11,000 years ago when the ice melted and sea water covered the bridge.
