Research Paper on:
How Pre History Shaped America

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of the first people into the Americas dates to between 30,000 and 20,000 years ago. Their arrival foreshadows the arrival of others who would enter what would later become  North America from the other side of the continent. The Norse invaders arrived nearly 500 years before Columbus discovered what would come to be called America. The nature  of the Norsemen, however, was such that they noted their discovery and moved on. The Europeans had more of a mind to exploit the natural resources of the New  World for profit in the old. All three of these groups were highly adventuresome types. Not content to stay within what was  known, they all struck out to discover new places, to find out what lay over that ridge - or ocean - over which no one traveled. Even the Puritans,  despite their rigid approach to daily affairs, were highly adventuresome in their own right. The influence that all have left us with today has evolved over the centuries to  become the American spirit, that quality that defies definition in some minds. The Earliest Inhabitants There were no tidy little campgrounds along the  way, no fast food restaurants and no local Wal-Mart supplying Coleman stoves sleeping bags. Those first adventuresome souls to travel across the Bering Strait, Southeast through present-day Alaska and  South and East through the vast expanse they discovered used only what the environment offered them. The skins of animals served duty long after their original owners had been  consumed by these "invaders." All groups devised forms of government that worked for them; all recognized the value of the social structure of the group.