How might life in the Americas have been different if the Ice Ages had not occurred?
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How might life in the Americas have been different if the Ice Ages had not occurred?
How might life in the Americas have been different if the Ice Ages had not occurred?
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The Missouri River would have flowed north across Canada. There would be no Hudson’s Bay. The Ohio River would not exist. Instead the “New” River of West Virginia would have flowed north to the St. Lawrence. There would be no Great Lakes.
The British colonies would have remained hemmed in along the Atlantic. There would be no easy access to the Mississippi and the interior might well have remained solidly French. If you did somehow get to the Mississippi, there would be no Missouri River to take you to the Rocky Mountains. There would be no Detroit, Chicago or Milwaukee.
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Without the ice ages dropping sea levels it’s doubtful if North America would’ve been populated when the Europeans arrived, Other than the few Pacific Islanders who rafted to Chile and the handful of Norsemen who wandered onto Nova Scotia and a few Inuits.