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- North America’s first inhabitants are believed to have been ancient Asiatic peoples who migrated from Siberia to North America sometime during the last glacial advance, known as the Wisconsin Glacial Stage, the most recent major division of the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).
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001 – World. 1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [5] [6] [7] are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. [8] [9] [10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
- List of Countries in The Americas by Population
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- Mississippi
Above the dam, the river's elevation is 799 feet (244 m)....
- American
The meaning of the word American in the English language...
- America (Disambiguation)
Places. The Americas, a landmass comprising the continents...
- Associated Islands
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The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History...
- List of Sovereign States and Dependent Territories in The Americas
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and...
- Settled The Americas
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa...
- Northern Canada
Northern Canada (French: Nord du Canada), colloquially the...
- Amazon
The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or...
- List of Countries in The Americas by Population
North America is the fourth most populous continent after Asia, Africa, and Europe. [127] Its most populous country is the U.S. with 329.7 million persons. The second-largest country is Mexico with a population of 112.3 million. [128] Canada is the third-most-populous country with 37.0 million. [129]
- 24,709,000 km² (9,540,000 sq mi) (3rd)
- 23 non-sovereign territories
- 23 sovereign states
- 592,296,233 (2021; 4th)
- Pre-Columbian North America
- Arrival of Europeans
- Colonial Era
- Revolutions
- Expansion Era
- Conflict, Confederation, and Invasion
- Late 19th Century
- World Wars Era
- Postwar
- Vietnam War and Stagflation
The specifics of Paleo-Indians' migration to and throughout the Americas, including the exact dates and routes traveled, are subject to ongoing research and discussion. For years, the traditional theory has been that these early migrants moved into the Beringia land bridge between eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska around 40,000–17,000 years ag...
Early contact
There was limited contact between North American people and the outside world before 1492. Several theoretical contacts have been proposed, but the earliest physical evidence comes from the Norse or Vikings. Erik the Red founded a colony on Greenland in 985 CE. Erik's son Leif Eriksson is believed to have reached the Island of Newfoundland circa 1000, naming the discovery Vinland. The only Norse site outside of Greenland yet discovered in North America is at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland a...
European colonization
Colonization refers to large-scale population movements in which the migrants maintain strong links with their or their ancestors' former country, gaining significant advantages over other inhabitants of the territory by such links. When colonization takes place under the protection of clearly colonial political structures, it may most handily be called settler colonialism. This often involves the settlers' entirely dispossessing earlier inhabitants, or instituting legal and other structures...
By the year 1663 the French crown had taken over control of New France from the fur-trading companies, and the English charter coloniesgave way to more metropolitan control. This ushered in a new era of more formalized colonialism in North America. Rivalry between the European powers created a series of wars on the North American landmass that woul...
The coming of the American Revolution had a great impact across the continent. Most importantly it directly led to the creation of the United States of America. However, the associated American Revolutionary War was an important war that touched all corners of the region. The flight of the United Empire Loyalists led to the creation of English Cana...
From the time of independence of the United States, that country expanded rapidly to the west, acquiring the massive Louisiana territory in 1803. Between 1810 and 1811 a Native confederacy under Tecumseh fought unsuccessfully to keep the Americans from pushing them out of the Great Lakes. Tecumseh's followers then went north into Canada, where they...
The secession of the Confederate States and the resulting civil war rocked American society. It eventually led to the end of slavery in the United States, the destruction and later reconstructionof most of the South, and tremendous loss of life. From the conflict, the United States emerged as a powerful industrialized nation. Partly as a response t...
In both the United States and Canada, the second half of the 19th century witnessed massive inflows of immigration to settle the West. These lands were not uninhabited however: in the United States the government fought numerous Indian Wars against the native inhabitants. In Canada, relations were more peaceful, as a result of the Numbered Treaties...
World War I
As a part of the British Empire Canada immediately was at war in 1914. Canada bore the brunt of several major battles during the early stages of the war including the use of poison gas attacks at Ypres. Losses became grave, and the government eventually brought in conscription, despite the fact this was against the wishes of the majority of French Canadians. In the ensuing Conscription Crisis of 1917, riots broke out on the streets of Montreal. In neighboring Newfoundland, the new dominion su...
Interwar years
The 1920s brought an age of great prosperity in the United States, and to a lesser degree Canada. But the Wall Street Crash of 1929 combined with drought ushered in a period of economic hardship in the United States and Canada. From 1937 to 1949, this was a popular uprising against the anti-Catholic Mexican government of the time, set off specifically by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917.
World War II
Once again Canada found itself at war before her neighbors, however even Canadian contributions were slight before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The entry of the United States into the war helped to tip the balance in favor of the Allies. On August 19, 1942, a force of some 6000, largely Canadian, infantry was landed near the French channel port of Dieppe. The German defenders under General von Rundstedt destroyed the invaders. 907 Canadians were killed and almost 2,500 captured (many...
The early Cold War era saw the United States as the most powerful nation in a Western coalition of which Mexico and Canada were also a part. At home, the United States witnessed convulsive change especially in the area of race relations. In Canada this was mirrored by the Quiet Revolution and the emergence of Quebec nationalism. Mexico experienced ...
During this time the United States became involved in the Vietnam War as part of the global Cold War. This war would later prove to be highly divisive in American society, and American troops were withdrawn from Indochina in 1975 with the Khmer Rouge's capture of Phnom Penh on April 17, the Vietnam People's Army's capture of Saigon on April 30 and ...
聖多明哥. 瓜地馬拉市. 北亞美利加洲 （英語： North America ；字源： 亞美利哥·維斯普西 ），簡稱 北美洲 ，位於 西半球 北部（或 北半球 ）。. 東臨 大西洋 ，西臨 太平洋 ，北瀕 北冰洋 ，南以 巴拿馬運河 為界與 南美洲 劃分。. 北美洲還包括 加勒比海 中眾多 ...
- 565,720,588（2016年，第4）
- 北美人、美洲人
- 22.9/km² (59.3/sq mi)
- 24,709,000 km²（9,540,000 sq mi）
May 3, 2024 · Geographical treatment of North America, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its geologic history, land, people, and economy. It occupies the northern portion of the ‘New World.’. North America, the world’s third largest continent, lies mainly between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer.
History of Wikipedia. The English edition of Wikipedia has grown to 6,822,233 articles. [1] Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]
北美洲历史 是 北美洲 地区人类既往的活动。. 普遍认为，人类跨越 白令海 来到北美洲的时间，是大约17,000年至40,000年前 [1] 。. 但近年来的发现表明，北美洲最早的人类活动，可能还要向前追溯90,000年 [2] 。. 从最早的人类抵达北美开始，人类的活动范围逐渐 ...
