An Outline of 美国史.ppt

An Outline of American History Chapter One: Early America 1. The First Americans The Bering Sea Beringia; the Siberian coast 2. The First Europeans: The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland , where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is thought to have explored the northeast coast of what is now Canada and spent at least one winter there. In 1497, just five years after Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean looking for a western route to