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Name: 1491
Rating: 4.357142857142 (28 reviews)
Author: Charles C. Mann

Charles C. Mann’s *1491* reexamines the pre‑Columbian Americas using recent archaeological and anthropological research. The book shows that thousands of years before European arrival, the continent hosted more people than Europe, featured megacities such as Tenochtitlan with running water and botanical gardens, and boasted highly engineered crops like corn. It also highlights Amazonian tribes’ sustainable rainforest agriculture and the vast landscape transformations carried out by Native peoples, thereby reshaping our understanding of early American societies.

First publish date: 2005

Genre: History/Ancient History

Authors: Charles C. Mann

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