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It is believed that when the first humans came to North America there was exposed land connecting Siberia and Alaska, where the Bering Strait is now, and that is how they entered the continent.

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What is the Name of this Strait in the North Pacific that once connected these two continents and allowed for Native Americans to be the first people of the continent?

Bering Strait. They weren't Native Americans, however, they were people from the Kamchatka Peninsula; from the nation of Rus, or Russians.


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The idea that people migrated from Asia to North America over the Bering Strait when it was frozen. According to this hypothesis all aboriginal Americans including South Americans are decended from Asians.


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What is the name of the ice bridge the Asians used when they first came to this as Native Americans?

It's called the Bering Strait Crossing if I'm not wrong.


What strait separates Alaska and USSR?

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What was the ice age theory that was believed that's how native Americans came to the us?

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What is an historical theory versus fact about ancient American civilization A people walked across the Bering Strait during the ice age B in the ice age the Bering Strait was above sea level?

Theory: One historical theory is that ancient American civilizations originated from migrants who crossed the Bering Strait during the ice age. Fact: During the ice age, the Bering Strait was indeed above sea level due to lower global sea levels, which could have facilitated human migration between Asia and the Americas.