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2 days ago · The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers ( Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago). [2] .
1 day ago · African Americans are largely the descendants of enslaved people who were brought from their African homelands by force to work in the New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States.
- Hollis Lynch
1 day ago · White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. According to the 2020 census, 71%, or 235,411,507 people, were White alone or in combination, and 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were White alone.
May 31, 2024 · Creole, originally, any person of European (mostly French or Spanish) or African descent born in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America (and thus naturalized in those regions rather than in the parents’ home country).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 31, 2024 · Many Native American peoples in the U.S. use the collective term American Indian (or Indian), though the terms Native American, First Nation (preferred in Canada), Native Alaskan, and others incorporating Native and Indigenous are also widely used and may refer to differing groups.
3 days ago · Relations between the Egyptians and Nubians showed peaceful cultural interchange, cooperation, and mixed marriages. Nubian bowmen that settled at Gebelein during the First Intermediate Period married Egyptian women, were buried in Egyptian style, and eventually could not be distinguished from Egyptians.: 56
May 31, 2024 · As early as the 1840s, Swedish journalists and writers toured "Swedish America" communities to gauge the extent to which the mother culture was being preserved. Some were sympathetic, others were critical, but all of their writings shed light on Swedish American local history.
