The Best Estimates are between 50-100 Million Indigenous in the Western Hemisphere circa 1491... At the turn of the 20th Century, the best estimates were ~200,000 Survivors including those waiting to be discovered in the Amazon... At the time of Columbus, it has been stated that Mexico City was the Largest City In The World... Cortez bro…
The Best Estimates are between 50-100 Million Indigenous in the Western Hemisphere circa 1491... At the turn of the 20th Century, the best estimates were ~200,000 Survivors including those waiting to be discovered in the Amazon... At the time of Columbus, it has been stated that Mexico City was the Largest City In The World... Cortez brought Smallpox which essentially wiped out the Aztecs who had migrated from Central Utah... Cortez had introduced Smallpox before the Aztecs had successfully repelled him during his initial foray... When Cortez returned again, with numerous Native Allies that were Enemies of the Aztecs, the Aztecs had been Decimated by Smallpox... The Aztecs had essentially been Conquered by Smallpox...
“ Production of the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American 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.”
Any historian or anthropologist would laugh at your estimate. There’s no way a population of that size would have been sustainable without sophisticated and systematic agriculture. As to the rest of your post, I read that in 5th grade history class. You’re trying to assert that native populations in what is now the US represented 20 to 25% of world population is silly.
In China alone around the Time of Confucius there were about 20,000,000 - 30,000,000... The Western Roman Empire had between 50-70 million ~100AD... The Aztec Empire was estimated to had ~5,000,000 - 20,000,000 Subjects... Tenochtitlan the Aztec Capital ( Modern Mexico City ) may have had as many as 200,000 People Alone... Read up on their Agriculture... The Inca Empire is Estimated to have had 6-14 Million People... The Incas' Census, the 'Quipus' is considered reliable... What Year Is Your Reference? You Can Start Checking More Recent Numbers By Googling... "1,894,250" is Suspiciously Precise... My Numbers are for the Western Hemisphere.... That Includes North, South, and Central Americas...
The Smithsonian Handbook. They built that number for tribes within what is now the continental US by estimating tribe by tribe. That’s what gives the oddly precise estimate.
The Best Estimates are between 50-100 Million Indigenous in the Western Hemisphere circa 1491... At the turn of the 20th Century, the best estimates were ~200,000 Survivors including those waiting to be discovered in the Amazon... At the time of Columbus, it has been stated that Mexico City was the Largest City In The World... Cortez brought Smallpox which essentially wiped out the Aztecs who had migrated from Central Utah... Cortez had introduced Smallpox before the Aztecs had successfully repelled him during his initial foray... When Cortez returned again, with numerous Native Allies that were Enemies of the Aztecs, the Aztecs had been Decimated by Smallpox... The Aztecs had essentially been Conquered by Smallpox...
“ Production of the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American 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.”
Any historian or anthropologist would laugh at your estimate. There’s no way a population of that size would have been sustainable without sophisticated and systematic agriculture. As to the rest of your post, I read that in 5th grade history class. You’re trying to assert that native populations in what is now the US represented 20 to 25% of world population is silly.
In China alone around the Time of Confucius there were about 20,000,000 - 30,000,000... The Western Roman Empire had between 50-70 million ~100AD... The Aztec Empire was estimated to had ~5,000,000 - 20,000,000 Subjects... Tenochtitlan the Aztec Capital ( Modern Mexico City ) may have had as many as 200,000 People Alone... Read up on their Agriculture... The Inca Empire is Estimated to have had 6-14 Million People... The Incas' Census, the 'Quipus' is considered reliable... What Year Is Your Reference? You Can Start Checking More Recent Numbers By Googling... "1,894,250" is Suspiciously Precise... My Numbers are for the Western Hemisphere.... That Includes North, South, and Central Americas...
The Smithsonian Handbook. They built that number for tribes within what is now the continental US by estimating tribe by tribe. That’s what gives the oddly precise estimate.
What Year was it published see?, my numbers above... The History of Indigenous Repression goes back to 1492...