The people who first came to America came in ships or crossed over an ice bridge.
The people who first came to America came in ships or crossed over an ice bridge.
Alaska is the US state closest to where the first people crossed a land bridge into North America. The Bering Land Bridge connected Alaska and Siberia during the last Ice Age, allowing early humans to migrate into North America.
The people who first came to America came in ships or crossed over an ice bridge.
The people who first came to America came in ships or crossed over an ice bridge.
bering strait
They crossed it to get from Asia to North America while following mammoths.
bering strait
no one is sure how the first people got to the Americas or when they arrived. most historians think they came to North America from Asia by 12000 BC. they probably walked across a land-bridge that crossed the Bering strait
On the first day of opening of Bridge, a total of 1800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed it
People most likely came to "America" via the land bridge called Beringia that used to be present connecting modern day Russia and Alaska. It is debated what year the first people crossed that land bridge, but it is typically accepted to be about 10,000 BCE.
Most scientists believe that the first people to reach America crossed the Bering Land Bridge, a strip of land that connected Asia to North America during the last Ice Age. This migration is thought to have occurred around 15,000-20,000 years ago.