FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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50, with a population of about 500, 000
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500, with a population of about 22 million
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70, with a population of about 2 million
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225, with a population of about 900, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. B Some 500 tribes inhabited what is now the United States, totaling about 22 million people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Estimates range from 8–112 million. Scholars have varied widely on the estimated size of the Indigenous populations prior to colonization and on the effects of European contact.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to the arrival of European explorers in the Americas in 1492, it is estimated that the population of the continent was around sixty million people.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indians has enabled new tribe-by-tribe estimates of North American Indian population size. Collectively these data suggest that population numbered about 1, 894, 350 at about A.D. 1500. Epidemics and other factors reduced this number to only 530, 000 by 1900.
Detailed explanation-5: -How many tribes inhabited North America before the Europeans explored the New World? Over 200-Before European settlement, there were over 200 tribes speaking 200 languages.