Human life in Canada's Yukon Territory 24,000 years ago

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6. The main reason why European Christians speculated about

the Native people of the Americas being the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel is that they were trying to account for the existence of two whole continents filled with people they had never heard of and were not mentioned in the Bible. So they tried to find them in the Bible.

But the Bible itself tells what happened to the ten tribes. After the conquest of Israel and dispersal of its citizens, only two tribes returned in any numbers. The rest had been so dispersed throughout the region that they blended in with the places they were split up to be sent to.

Some of them were in Samaria - the Samaritans of the New Testament - who remained related to but split from the people of Judea.

Europeans were stymied by populations that they could not account for within the framework of accepted beliefs about the world prior to Columbus.