Did you know that tens of millions lived in America when Columbus landed in 1492?
Did you know that there is a giant pyramid built one thousand years ago that still stands near St. Louis?
The Americas before Columbus were inhabited by tens of millions of people. Pueblo civilization in the American southwest harnessed corn agriculture from tropical Mexico and adapted it to a desert environment. From there, corn agriculture expanded to the Mississippian cultures, and from there up the Ohio River to the Huron, Iroquois, and Algonkin cultures.
The three books I reference are:
1491 by Charles Mann
Moundbuilders by George Milner
History of the Ancient Southwest by Stephen Lekson
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