east coast trip
well things are looking to where i just might be able to do the trip of my life time. to do a trip back east and see the beginings of America. but it can not take place for four years yet. this...
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BCSnob wrote:fla-gypsy wrote:of European decent. Cahokia in IL had 20,000 inhabitants ca. 1100-1200 AD.
Our stuff pre dates anything up north. We have 16th century history in Florida. St Augustine is the oldest city in the nation.
One could go on and on. St.Augustine ws Spanish.
Amerigo Vaspucci discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Eskimos up North on their way south.
Polynesians rafted over from wherever to South America.
I understood the OP was inferring "American" SETTLEMENTS" and COLONIAL self-governments under organized societal norms.
Native Americans didn't number more than 5-7 million (according to whatever facts one evaluates), in LOOSELY organized confederations. Low birth rates and infant survival rates among hunter-gatherer groups and a few agricultursl tribes didn't help either.
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