USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to colonization have been difficult to establish. By the end of the 20th century, most scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million-with some historians arguing for an estimate of 100 million or more.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Native Americans occupied the continent before the Europeans arrived.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer #59: American Indians; Native Americans. The Native American Indians were the first people to live in the territory that currently makes up the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13, 000 to 13, 500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.