Cortez Dindu Nuffin Wrong

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think current evidence isn't that the Americans were mostly unoccupied.

Rather when first contact was made many settlements were observed.

Then 90% died of old world diseases.

When Europeans started coming over to settle they then found the continent mostly empty.

Archaeology in the Amazon is finding evidence to support this.

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By unoccupied I mean that there was almost no land in use. Also the disease angle is overwrought. Ryan Faulk has a video "The Non-Genocide of the North American Natives", showing that population estimates are greatly exaggerated in impossible ways given the population limit on their limited farming.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You can't estimate how much farming there was if you don't know how many people were there. That's the wrong way round. Like I say archaeological evidence is finding more and more settlements. Farming won't leave as clear a trace, especially stuff like corn which has a shallow root system.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/amazon-jungle-ancient-population-satellite-computer-model

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http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/06/02/the-non-genocide-of-northern-native-americans/