![]() ![]() Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called human’s first feat of genetic engineering. This is the young readers version of his more in-depth book 1491. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Before Columbus, The Americas of 1491 by Charles C Mann. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Ĭontrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. A well-illustrated companion book for young readers based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking bestseller by Charles C. ![]()
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