FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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1000
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10, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million people to a high of 18 million.
Detailed explanation-2: -Estimates ranged from a low of 720, 000 (Kroeber 1939) to a high of 15 million (Dobyns 1983), with a reanalysis estimating 5.65 million (Thornton 1990). By 1800, the Native population of the present-day United States had declined to approximately 600, 000, and only 250, 000 Native Americans remained in the 1890s.
Detailed explanation-3: -The population of Native America Scholarly estimates of the pre-Columbian population of Northern America have differed by millions of individuals: the lowest credible approximations propose that some 900, 000 people lived north of the Rio Grande in 1492, and the highest posit some 18, 000, 000.