7. The Americas

• Main Author: Ringmar, Erik
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers 2020
• Subjects: globalization; Polynesia; international relation; non-European perspective; International Relations courses; East Asia; pre-Columbian Central and South America; Africa; Mongols in Central Asia; Arabs in the Mediterranean; the Indian Ocean; Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia; the Europeans; colonial expansion; decolonization; neo-colonialism; International Relations; Political Science; HIS000000; HIS017000; HIS019000; HIS054000; HB; HBJF; HBJF1; HBTB; Bering Strait; Indian
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/obp/9106

Taken together the Americas, North and South, cover an enormous geographical area which runs from one polar region to the other, comprising all kinds of climates and ecological environments, including rainforests, deserts, prairies and some of the highest mountains in the world. Human beings began settling here some 20,000 years ago. Scholars are convinced that the first Americans wandered across the land bridge which at the time connected Asia and North America — across today’s Bering Strait.