USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In doing so, authors calculated that about 60.5 million people lived in the Americas prior to European contact. Once Koch and his colleagues collated the before-and-after numbers, the conclusion was stark. Between 1492 and 1600, 90% of the indigenous populations in the Americas had died.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, there are 574 nationally recognized Native American tribes. However, during the Pre-Columbian era, there were thought to be over 1, 000 Native American civilizations, all residing within what we would consider the United States today.

Detailed explanation-3: -more than 5 million in 1492. 23 And he estimated that another 2 million Native people lived in what is today Canada, Alaska, and Greenland at that time. 24 In 1992, Stannard estimated that between 8 and 12 million Indigenous people lived in North America north of present-day Mexico.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many Woodland people planted crops such as sunflowers, corn, pumpkins, squash, and beans and built permanent wooden homes. Nevertheless, Indians in the Woodland period still relied primarily on hunting, fishing, and gathering.