FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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about 50
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about 600
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about 2, 200
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about 4, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -’ The Algonquian family brought us caucus, hickory, pecan, squash, toboggan and succotash. It’s also the source of some more obviously Indigenous American words that have made their way into the English lexicon: tomahawk, totem, moccasin, wigwam and powwow are examples.
Detailed explanation-2: -No native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact, unlike the Maya, Aztecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs of Mesoamerica who had native writing systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -War and violence While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization.