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1. How many people lived in North and South America when Columbus landed in the

Caribbean Islands?

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"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492."

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