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There have been a lot of false statements about Native Americans such as, they are savages, they weren't in the New World before the Europeans, etc..  Even though there were accusations about the Native Americans, but one thing is right, they were one of the strongest as well as largest group of people that have ever lived in the New World during the time of when Columbus was there. The population of the Native Americans spread all around the New World after migrating. There were millions of Native Americans in the New World when the Europeans arrived. The Native Americans societies were rich, diverse, and very sophisticated. Food discovered and domesticated by the Native Americans would transform the diet of Europe and Asia. Native Americans made many crucial contributions modern medicine, art, architecture, and ecology even though those contributions were sometimes neglected. They developed inventive and creative cultures. They cultivated plants for food, dyes, medicine, textiles, domesticated animals, established extensive patterns of trade, built cities, produced monumental architecture, developed intricate systems of religious beliefs, and constructed a wide variety of systems of social and political organization. Native Americans struggled intensely to preserve the essentials of their diverse cultures while adapting to rapidly changing conditions. Few people believed that the Native Americans were primitive, but they were very skilled and had a populations that were thriving up until the Europeans arrived.

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There are many false accusations on who and what was in the new world before the Europeans came. Many people think it was a pretty deserted land. This is not true. In fact, there were millions of Native Americans living in the new world prior to the arrival of Europeans. Many people also think they were primitive and undeveloped. This is yet another misunderstanding. They were actually very rich, diverse, and sophisticated. They built trade routes, cultivated plants, domesticated animals, and had a leadership. So really, the "New World" was only new to us.

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Native Americans are rich, diverse, and sophisticated. They were one of the strongest and largest group of people. They survived by using natural resources in every aspect of life. Past Native people past farmed, hunted, and fished. They gathered food such as berries, nuts, and other foods from naturally growing trees, and berry bushes.

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No aspect of our past has been more thoroughly shaped by popular mythology than the history of Native Americans. Quite unconsciously, Americans have picked up a host of misconceptions. For example, many assume that pre-Columbian North America was a sparsely populated virgin land. In fact, millions of Native Americans inhabited the area that would become the United States.

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Native american people developed inventive creative cultures. They cultivated plants for food, dyes, medicines, and animals. Native Americans struggled intently to preserve the essentials of their diverse cultures while adapting to radically changing conditions. The largest domesticated animals were dogs, llamas, and alpacas, and therefore the Indians could not rely on such animal by-products such as wool, leather, milk, and meat. All Indians lived in an organized structure, and religious beliefs.

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The Native American had a diverse and sophistcated cultre and there were millions of them across North america with thousands of languages spoken and then the Europeans had came and with them they brought many disease which wiped most of the native americans because they had not devolped immunites they aloso had many domesticated animlas like dogs and llamas.

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Before Columbus, Native Americans were very rich, diverse, and sophisticated societies. These natives were not only the first known society in the New World but spoke over 2,000 different languages and they cultivated plants for food, dyes, medicine, and textiles. They also developed advancements in agriculture and government. Thousands of them spread across the Americas.

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The Natives who lived in the "New World" before Columbus were a rich, diverse, and sophisticated society. These Natives were the first known society in the "New World," they spoke over 2,000 different languages and helped with advancements in medicine, food, and textiles. The Natives had domesticated animals as wel

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The Native Americans were more advanced than the Europeans wanted to believe. They had inventive and creative cultures. They cultivated plants for food, dyes, and medicines. They domesticated animals, they had a pattern for trading, made monumental architecture, and made a system of religious beliefs. When the Europeans started trading with them they also brought many diseases which the Native Americans weren't immune to. For example, smallpox, plague, mumps, and whooping coughs were some that affected the overall Native American population.

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Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii. There are over 500 federally recognized tribes within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations, Approximately 30,000 years ago, the paleo-Indians, the ancestors of native Americans, followed herds of animals from Siberia across Beringia, a land bridge connecting Asia and North America, into Alaska.

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Millions of Native Americans inhabited the area that would become the United States. In the new world there was 2,00 diffrent languenges. After columbus came they brought diseases and they have never been near someone from somewhere else they got affected easily and died. The others that were able to fight the disease but were enslaved. They also colivated plants for food, dye, medicene, and textiles.

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Native American societies were rich, diverse, and sophisticated.Native Americans would transform the diet of Europe and Asia. Native Americans also made many crucial--though often neglected--contributions to modern medicine, art, architecture, and ecology. Native American not only adapted to diverse and demanding environment.

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Before Columbus, Native Americans lived on the land that became the United States. People believed that the Native Americans survived because of hunting, fishing and gathering plants, but really Native Americans were rich, diverse and sophisticated. Native Americans made contributions in modern medicine, art, architecture, and ecology. The Native Americans established many things like cities, trade, religious beliefs, etc.

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Despite the morphed misconceptions we have of the Native Americans, they were still one of the strongest and largest in the New World at the time of Columbus. On the "eve of European conquest" the Native American population had spread throughout all of the New World after their migration there some 30,00 years ago after taking a land bridge between North America and Siberia. Some chose to continue with their hunting and gathering customs as others built sophisticated societies that produced discoveries in medicine, art, architecture, and ecology. Besides that, they also developed political structures, moral codes, and many tribes had their own intricate religious beliefs. Their use of natural resources lead to their way of life being directly tied to nature. To put it simply, in no way were the people who inhabited the New World primitive or exponentially less advanced

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All of the native americans were made out to be not as advanced as they really were. For example, people thought that north america was a sparsely populated virgin land. But what people didnt know was that millions of native americans inhabited the area that would become the United States. This made them the largest group of people in the New World from Columbus. After a while they had spread throughout all of the  New World when they migrated. The Natives were rich, diverse, and sophisticated. They spoke over 2,000 languages, which lead people to then believe they were diverse. Overall, the Natives had proved everyone wrong by proving they were advanced.

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The native Americans are known as the first large amount of people in most of the Americas. It was thought to be that their were only a few tribes in North America, which was false. They also believed that Native Americans were primitive, which was also false. In fact, food in the america's would completely change Europe's and Asia's diet. The native Americans developed many inventions and items in the time their were left untouched by other parts of the world.

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No aspect of our past has been more thoroughly shaped by popular mythology than the history of Native Americans. Quite unconsciously, Americans have picked up a host of misconceptions. For example, many assume that pre-Columbian North America was a sparsely populated virgin land. In fact, millions of Native Americans inhabited the area that would become the United States.

This section traces the settlement of the Americas by Paleo-Indians, the ancestors of the New World Indians; it examines the diversity and size of Native American cultures; and identifies the defining characteristics of the Indian cultures of North America on the eve of European contact.

Summary

Although few textbooks today use the word "primitive" to describe pre-contact Native Americans, many still convey the impression that North American Indians consisted simply of small migratory bands that  through hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. As we shall see, this view is incorrect; in fact, Native American societies were rich, diverse, and sophisticated.

Food discovered and domesticated by Native Americans would transform the diet of Europe and Asia. Native Americans also made many crucial--though often neglected--contributions to modern medicine, art, architecture, and ecology.

During the thousands of years preceding European contact, the Native American people developed inventive and creative cultures. They cultivated plants for food, dyes, medicines, and textiles; domesticated animals; established extensive patterns of trade; built cities; produced monumental architecture; developed intricate systems of religious beliefs; and constructed a wide variety of systems of social and political organization ranging from kin-based bands and tribes to city-states and confederations. Native Americans not only adapted to diverse and demanding environments, they also reshaped the natural environments to meet their needs. And after the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans struggled intently to preserve the essentials of their diverse cultures while adapting to radically changing conditions.

Approximately 30,000 years ago, the Paleo-Indians, the ancestors of Native Americans, followed herds of animals from Siberia across Beringia, a land bridge connecting Asia and North America, into Alaska. By 8,000 B.C.E., these peoples had spread across North and South America.

No one knows for sure how many Indians lived in the Western Hemisphere in 1492, but the number was in the millions. In no sense were the Americas empty lands.

At least 2,000 distinct languages were spoken in the Americas in 1492. Cultural differences were marked. Some Indian peoples belonged to small bands of hunters and gatherers; some practiced sophisticated irrigated agriculture.

Complex, agriculturally-based cultures developed in a number of regions, including the Mayas and Aztecs in Mesoamerica, the Incas in Peru, and the Moundbuilders and Mississippians in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys.

All Indians lived in organized societies with political structures, moral codes, and religious beliefs. All had adapted to the particular environments in which they lived. The idea of private land ownership was foreign; land was held communally and worked collectively.

The largest domesticated animals were dogs, llamas, and alpacas, and therefore the Indians could not rely on such animal by-products such as wool, leather, milk, and meat. Although some societies had developed the wheel, it was used as a toy. No society had shaped metal into guns, swords, or tools; none had gunpowder, sailing ships, or mounted warriors.

Deadly epidemics also aided the European conquest. The Indians were highly susceptible to European diseases. Smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, plague, cholera, measles, and influenza appear to have been unknown. Measles, mumps, whooping cough, and other epidemics grately reduced the Indian population.

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For some reason, people think of Native Americans of primitive savages. If you think that, sorry to burst your bubble, but they weren't. :) In fact, they were actually pretty smart. :D They changed some ways about Europe and Asia, such as diets. They made several advancements in domestic animals and food. People thought that the Americas were empty, but in fact, millions of Native Americans had been living there.

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The Native People of North America before Columbus were in numerous numbers. Thousands of them spread across the Americas when migrating. The Native people became very sophisticated and some thought they were more intellectual than the Europeans. Native People developed intricate technologies. They developed advancements in agriculture and government.

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About 30,000 years ago Paleo-Indians, the ancestors of Native Americans followed animals form Siberia to the land bridge connecting Asia and North America, to Alaska. In 8,000 B.C.E they spread across North and South America. There were millions of Native American  in the "New World" when the Europeans came. The Native Americans were highly sophisticated and had rich, divers cultures. The Native Americans food discovery would transform the diet of Europe and Asia. The Native Americans made crucial contributions to art, architecture and ecology. They cultivated plants for foods, dyes, medicine, and textiles. They also domesticated a lot of animals. Some of the animals they domesticated were llamas, dogs, and alpacas, they also had animal based products like, milk, wool, leather, and meat. The Native American had political organizations.

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The Native Americans were much more advanced than most people think. They were plentiful in population all around what is now, the U.S. They made major contributions in medicine, art, and architecture. They had complex religions and political systems. They had very organized societies. They domesticated animal. In the end when the European Settlers came, they spread diseases to them which killed them because they didn't have those diseases before. They decreased the population by a major amount.

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Despite what people believe, The native Americans where very sophisticated and diverse. They lived all over America and there were thousands of them until the Europeans arrived and decimated the Native American population with the diseases that they brought with them. Before the Europeans began to colonize the Americas there were millions of Native Americans, there were over 2,000 distinct languages spoken across the New World. Every Native American belonged to an organized society with politics, moral codes, and religious beliefs. The Native Americans domesticated many plants and animals and contributed to modern medicine, art, and agriculture. Many people believe that the Native Americans were primitive and few, but they were very intellectual and had a population that was in the millions, until the Europeans arrived.

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Explain what you have learned, so far,  about the Native peoples who were in the Americas before Columbus.

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Explain what you have learned, so far,  about the Native peoples who were in the Americas before Columbus.