2007-02-19 14:04:42 · 17 answers · asked by GreenGrasshopper 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Considering how the world was at that time, it wouldn't surprise me. Being in an ice age, so much of the ocean was frozen that it wouldn't have been a problem to hike across it to find land with more resources to survive on. Much of Africa was warm enough to support life as much of Asia was way too cold and food was scarce. They didn't have knowledge of the world as we do today. Different groups of people went different directions. Some wound up here, some elsewhere. Some died trying.
This is all based on what I've heard. I don't really know and I'm not going to pretend I know.
To RedPower Woman, I agree that white people in this country have done a lot to try to sugar-coat or completely cover-up their past and present sins. But I don't think that's the case with this. It seems like an intelligent hypothesis based on coherent theories. Either way, I don't take credence to anything we can't know for sure. Peace.
2007-02-27 05:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by Ledge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Why cant you just understand that Native Americans are from America. You dont say that Europeans migrated from South America and you dont think Asians migrated from India so just get it straight ok.
2007-02-27 14:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by Kay Kay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The population of North America (Native Americans- North and South) are origionated from the Asian continent AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. That does not mean that people were "Asian" thousands of years ago. Before the great Ice Age, the Bering Strait connected Russia to Alaska (as we know them today), and peoples from the Asian continent migrated to the North American continent. From there, the people developed their own physical features due to their geographic location (darker skin vs. lighter skin). People were not placed into race classes (scientifically) until modern times. It has been proven that the first men were developed in Africa and migrated in all directions to form their own racial/geographic features.
2007-02-19 23:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by AmandaVP 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wow, it seems that everyone is so willing to believe a completely unproven theory. I do not think we came across the land bridge during the ice age, nor do I believe the newest theory about us descending from Europeans 20,000 years ago, who migrated with the ice flows. Our ancestors say that we have always been here, that's what I will believe until there is a plethora of scientific evidence showing otherwise.
2007-02-26 15:35:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mikasew 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
originally, according to the bible, everything started in babilon, when god mixed up their languages, so the people that understood each other got together and moved on to all the different parts of the world.
no evolution but simple social issues.
and the proof is that the older the languages are they begin to match with all the other. speaking of phonetic and meanings.
some people dont trust the bible because according to that book, this world is only like 6000 years old, and we have been discovering very old fossils of many many millions yeras ago. to understand this issue, the secret is that the bible only talks about what happened since adam and beyond. but that doesnt mean that werent any previos life here before that period. what honest theologists believe is that there was a pre adamic world that was destroyed by a very tremendous war betwee God and satan. and they como to this, because in the bible in the very first words what it syas is that there waas darkness and chaos and with no order. so God as we know it started from there to tell us what happen in the bible.
2007-02-27 14:46:12 · answer #5 · answered by Diextro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is definitely not true!
The land bridge theory is just a theory. It is in fact, scientific racism.
There is more evidence against the theory than for it. There is actually little to no evidence to prove the theory. Most scientists, scholars, and common citizens today believe in this theory on bind faith. They do no research to see if it is true. Why was it created?
So that settlers and their descendants didn't have to feel guilt about stealing this land. Their thinking is that if Natives were immigrants we all had equal rights to it. Well, there is no evidence to support this.
For more information please read "Red Earth White Lies" by Vine Deloria Jr.
2007-02-19 23:52:53 · answer #6 · answered by RedPower Woman 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
this is the mainstream evolutionary theory. Until proven otherwise it is the correct way to see it. Of course culturally Native Americans have diverged form the Asians a great deal.
2007-02-19 22:09:16 · answer #7 · answered by hendrik k 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so. Asians (I am assuming you mean the orientals) are a completely different race. They dont really look like Native Americans and they dont have similar traditions to that of Natives.
2007-02-27 15:27:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont know about that but there is evidence suggesting that man had reached North America before the Ice Age
2007-02-19 22:15:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
it would make sense if early man migrated out of afrika, that the people heading for the americas passed through asia first.
its not absolutely nessecary though, the Ainu (a race from norther japan) is descended from European man.
2007-02-19 22:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋