Finding America 值,、2A The Bering Strait During the height of the ice age, between 34.000 and 30.000 BC much of the world water was frozen into ice sheets Because of Arctic ocean the drop in sea level, a land bridge, known as Beringia, emerged between Asia and North ch America The first visitors to America were following great herds of grazing mammals across the grassy tundra It took thousands of years for them to make their way down into the United States Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus(1451-1506)was an Italian explorer who sailed across the atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India Instead. he found the americasFinding America The Bering Strait ◼ During the height of the ice age, between 34,000 and 30,000 BC much of the world’s water was frozen into ice sheets. Because of the drop in sea level, a land bridge, known as Beringia, emerged between Asia and North America. ◼ The first visitors to America were following great herds of grazing mammals across the grassy tundra. ◼ It took thousands of years for them to make their way down into the United States. Christopher Columbus ◼ Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India. ◼ Instead, he found the Americas