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"Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitla?n, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitla?n, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
ix, 117 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents recent archaeological findings about the first people to settle the Americas, how they got here, and from what continent they came.
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