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During the last glaciation, most of North America was covered by great thicknesses of ice. Ice is frozen water and that water came, as snow, from the oceans, causing sea levels to drop. This created areas of dry land, some of which were not covered in ice because of the dry climate in some places. One of these places was the Bering Strait area, which provided a dry land over which people were able to travel from Asia into the Americas. This land was called Beringia, just north of where the Bering Sea is now.

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Why did the hunter gatherers cross beringia and migrate north America?

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Starting at India, the Native Americans traveled north at Asia, crossed the Bering Strait where it was occupied by a bridge during the Age, and traveled south throughout North America.


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