Christopher Columbus The United States And Charles C....

In education today, Christopher Columbus is known by the majority of students as the man who so called â€Å"discovered† the Americas accidentally on his voyage to India. Students learn about the â€Å"Indians† that Columbus stumbled across and the cultivations that Columbus and his crew were able to accomplish on the new lands. Books tell of new resources, materials, and goods that made it all the way across the sea from Genoa, but students have not been introduced to the carryover of disease(s) that Columbus and his men effortlessly passed on to the Native Peoples, the inaccuracies of the pre-Columbian North America, or the government s influence on historical beliefs. The tales of Columbus that are popularized across education only offers a†¦show more content†¦Their lives simply depended on their ability to cultivate the natural resources amongst them as well as develop strategies for agricultural growth and societal management. â€Å"Worldwide, more than half the crops grown today were initially developed in the Americas† (Mann 10). The Native Americans were able to spread crops throughout North America through fertile lands and rural areas, as well as spread maize crops amongst the planet due to their differences growing rates. In addition to being extremely cultivative and resourceful, the belief that pre-Columbian North America was minimally populated was poorly estimated. Anthropologist and researcher of native peoples in the American hemisphere, Henry F. Dobyns, concluded that â€Å"†¦ the Western Hemisphere held ninety to 112 million people†. Although it is very small when compared to the population of the Western Hemisphere today, it stands to prove that America was more populated than the flourishing Europe at the time. Furthermore, Anna C. Roosevelt posed that Marajà ³ was â€Å"one of the outstanding indigenous cultural achievements of the New World†. Marajà ³, being an island in the the Amazon , was able to host an estimated 100,000 inhabitants accumulated by Native American tribes. This proves to the show, the ability of Native Americans to not only depend on their knowledge to survive, but as well as their abilities