[Module 3]
A Short History of the Circumpolar World

Developed by Amanda Graham, Yukon College
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Table of Contents
  1. Introduction - How to Think About the History of the Whole Circumpolar Region
    • What is History?
    • Similarities
    • Two Broad Groups of People
    • Notes
  2. Aboriginal Peoples - Peopling of the North
    • Introduction
    • The First Peoples in the "North"
    • Deglaciation Around the Globe
    • Several Explanations for the Peopling of the Americas
    • Developments between 11,000-8000 BCE
    • Developments between 8000-5000 BCE 
    • Developments between 5000-2000 BCE 
    • Developments between 2000-1000 BCE 
    • Developments between 1000-1 BCE 
    • Developments between 1-500 CE 
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • Picture Credits
  3. Trade and Expansion - Southern Interests in the North
    • Introduction
    • The Earliest Trade and Traders
    • Trade and the North in the 15th to 18th Centuries
    • Russia
    • England and Others
    • Danish Trade and Evangelization
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • Picture Credits
  4. Company, Church and State
  5. Reaction and Resistance
  6. Contemporary Situation

Amanda Graham
Yukon College
March 2002