Explain the North American region.

North
America designates an area comprising three modern countries, Canada, Mexico, and the United
States. It has the Arctic Ocean as its northern border and is bounded on the west by the Pacific
Ocean and the east by the Atlantic Ocean. It is connected by land to the south to Central
America. Humans first arrived in the region from Asia via the Bering land bridge some 40,000 to
17,000 years ago, crossing from what is now Russia to what is now Alaska. They gradually spread
south across the continent.

There were several distinctive indigenous
civilizations including the Mayan and Aztec in Mexico and many tribes in North America including
the ancestral Sonoran peoples before the arrival of the Europeans in the colonial
period.

Although many different Europeans explored the Americas, the most
important groups to arrive in Mexico and the Southwestern United States were the Spanish and the
dominant colonists in the United States and Canada the French (Quebec and Louisiana) and
English. The English-speaking colonists of the what became the United States rebelled against
English rule and founded an independent republic which gradually expanded westward, while
Anglophone and Francophone Canadians formed a separate country with two national languages,
French and English. Mexico developed as a Spanish-speaking country. In the process of
colonization, European settlers oppressed indigenous peoples leading to inequalities that still
exist today.

The United States and Canada are prosperous high-income
countries and Mexico is ranked by the World Bank as an upper middle-income
nation.