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Prior to the arrival of European explorers in the Americas in 1492, it is estimated that the population of the continent was around sixty million people.
The Indian Population of North America in I492 John D. Daniels WYP HEN Columbus arrived in the New World, he found large numbers of people whom he named Indians. As Europeans occupied the Americas, Indians declined in both power and numbers. Over the next 400 years the native population shrank by millions.
The Indigenous population of the Americas in 1492 was not necessarily at a high point and may actually have already been in decline in some areas. Indigenous populations in most areas of the Americas reached a low point by the early 20th century.
25 lis 2019 · We don’t know precisely how many millions of people populated the Western Hemisphere when Christopher Columbus landed on the island he named San Salvador on October 12, 1492. Because the natives didn’t keep census records, we are left to rely on European head counts from whenever European settlers found the need or the time to count the natives.
Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than five million by 1650.
Native American Populations in 1492: Recent Research and a Revised Hemispheric Estimate (page xvii)
1 kwi 1992 · A range of studies on the biological impact of European colonization of the Americas on native populations show that although rapid population loss and extinction occurred in some areas, many groups survived and accommodated new and challenging circumstances, and indicate that there are common elements to native response to contact with ...
