"1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus" - Video -
In his book Charles Mann reached the conclusion that in the year before Christopher Columbus landed in 1492, there were more people in the Americas than in Europe.
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqmkUDqKiE
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This really isn't that big of a deal. I've read the theories of previous historians who concluded that there was a very big population in the Americas long before the Europeans arrived. It should also tell you just how much war there was to leave such few numbers of natives alive today.
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