Comments on: Unhappy Columbus Day! https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/13/unhappy-columbus-day/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Edgar Carpenter https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/13/unhappy-columbus-day/#comment-901049 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:44:17 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33323#comment-901049 A good companion to any biography of Columbus is Charles C. Mann’s book “1491 – New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus “, published in 2005.

It is an exploration of the civilizations and history of the Americas before the Europeans came, or as much as was known by 2005. Archaeology continues to expand our understanding of just how astonishing the Americas were before European diseases wiped out 90% of the indigenous people.

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