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Read The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. In the book, Joseph identifies many of the cities and where they are correspondingly found in the World. Interestingly enough, all of the cities are located in North America, and not South America. They landed in South America, then headed north. The book of mormon, in my opinion, and supported by Joseph Smith's testimony on cities, took place in North America and South America. However, the hill cummorah was in North America, where mormon, as a boy, got the plates, etc, took place in North America. Therefore, I believe the majority of what took place with the Nephites, took place in North America.
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Comments: This is a subject of interest for me right now. Do you believe it happened all over North and South America? Central America? Great Lakes regions? Why do you believe what you do about geography?
No, I think most of the Book of Mormon took place in the southern Mexico to what is blow that.
I think after the Book of Mormon (421AD) Is when things spread more and more over North America.
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Comments: Here is an excellent review of a popular N. American setting for The Book of Mormon Source 1 If anyone has attended any of his firesides (He cannot give them in Church buildings anymore) or his lectures, you must read this review. It shows the MANY fallacies in his arguments and how this information does not match up with scripture, Joseph Smith, or science.
I believe that the geography was in Central America. If you think about it the Olmecs were around the time of the Jaredites, the Nephites were the Mayans, and the wicked Lamanites after christ visited were the Aztecs. Weather Mormon walked all the way up to the Hill Cumorah in New York or God transported them there most of the Book of Mormon occured in the Meso-America region.
I don't really know where the history of the Book of Mormon people took place, but I think that the preponderance of the evidence seems to support a MesoAmerican locale. Unfortunately, the Hill Cumorah is in New York, and so far, all explanations for how a whole room full of plates got clear up to New York from Mexico seem unsatisfactory. Also, it is the Algonquins who have the proper DNA and not the Maya.