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Expanding Geographical Horizons: New Worlds

Expanding Geographical Horizons: New Worlds


1. Describe the route taken in the initial occupation of Australia.

2. Explain why Europeans thought the Aborigines were ‘stuck in time.’

3. Identify the factors needed to determine when people entered the Americas from Siberia.

4. Explain why the invention of the Clovis tool technology allowed humans to spread so quickly across two continents.

5. Be aware of the different opinions concerning when people first entered into the New World, where they may have come from, and the route or routes they took.