According to William M. Denevan in his book "The Native Population of the Americas in 1492" some research scholars have placed the population as high as 112 million to as low as 8 million. In any case he claims that by by 1650 there were less than 6 million in the area stretching from modern Panama on up to the Arctic Circle.
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The number of native americans was estimated at 14 million in 1492. There is no official census.
Our knowledge of the tribal groupings before 1492 is extremely limited, since there was nobody to record details before white explorers reached the interior of North America.
Many tribes simply did not exist at that time: the Crows and Arikaras had not yet split from the Hidatsas and Pawnee, the historic tribes of the Sioux did not yet exist and so on. To maker matters more difficult, many of the tribes we know after white contact were earlier known by completely different names while other tribes (such as the many small Ohio groups) became extinct before white explorers arrived.
For some native populations, such as the Mound Builders and occupants of Cahokia, we have no idea of the names of the tribes involved, or even what languages they spoke.
It is impossible to give an accurate answer to your question, since the evidence is too sparse and confusing to give an exact number.
It was estimated that the population of Native Americans in North America before Columbus was about five million. By the middle of the 20th century that population was less than 300,000.
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Christopher Columbus is generally credited with discovering America in 1492. It was his voyages that began the European expansion into and control over the American continents.
Vikings 500 years before Columbus. Columbus did NOT find North America. He landed on an island in 1492 while looking for a water route to India. All but a small fraction of the books and people that would prove this were burned and killed by Christopher Columbus and his men in 1492-1493.
Josh McArthur.
While the "Native Americans," the Norse, the Chinese and perhaps others discovered America earlier, the discovery by Columbus in 1492 is considered the "official" date of discovery becasue that is the discovery from which the modern world descends.
Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean on his travel from Spain Christopher Columbus is a explorer
yes, he discovered America in 1492
Columbus discovered America in 1492.
Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America for Spain.
Columbus discovered America.
Columbus is generally viewed as the person who "discovered" America, when instead he actually discovered the Virgin Islands. He is looked upon in a positive way by most Americans.
thousands of years before Columbus discovered America (go to answers.com)
Christopher Columbus discovered the coast of South America. He also discovered the West Indies and Central America. He discovered the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti.
Columbus
Christopher Columbus discovered America.
No name. He didn't land in North America.
Columbus discovered America by landing on islands in the Caribbean.
No Columbus discovered America first.