>>2163437>because of shitty governmental policy,It was actually European demand in the face of the devastation of WWI.
There were large cities in many cultural areas in the Americas, but the cultures that survived to 1600 AD have basically nothing to do with any of them because it's not like the Spanish were the first Europeans to bring apocalyptic disease epidemics to the Americas, the first time the population of North America was cut in half was shortly after the Vinlanders brought the Norwegian plague of 1350 to the Americas. Between that, the African diseases, small pox, influenza, etc etc, the only cultures that survived were the cultures of the marginal places that were lightly populated, and most of the cultures are descendants of the refugees that fled their homelands and abandoned/lost their ancestral knowledge and herblore. The Indians in this specific article record in their own oral history that they fled their east coast homelands because of some unspecified disaster, right around the 1350 range.
South America was hit worse, the population of the Amazon basin in 1200 was about the same as the population of the Indian Subcontinent, because there the neotropics weren't a disease ridden hellhole like Africa was, at least until the Spanish and the Portuguese fucked everything up by importing the African tropical diseases to the new world in the 1500s, but North America, roughly south of the Mason Dixon line suffered greatly too.
When it comes to the evidence of habitation, there is a great history of
>>2163332>>OKH is on it’s way out>Yeah except it’s not.It absolutely is. Impactor Hypothesis isn't mainstream yet (I suspect it will be within a decade or two), but the current consensus is that humans were a stressor, but that humans didn't and weren't going to completely wipe out the pleistocene megafauna, and that human populations crashed at the same time because of the other environmental issues related to the Younger Dryas.
