Following his remarks, he responded to questions and comments from members of the audience.Ĭharles Mann talked about his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, published by Alfred A. This book is incredibly well researched and reveals a whole new and spectacular 'ancient world' that we never learned about in school that of the human civilisations of the continents of North and South America prior to European contact. Mann used pictures during his presentation. He refuted the commonly taught version of the Americas before Columbus, saying it wasn’t a sparsely populated wilderness but a cultivated land populated by advanced peoples. In the book, the author described the cultures of the Aztec and Native American peoples of the Americas as well as the technological innovations of their respective cultures. In his book Charles Mann reached the conclusion that in the year before Christopher Columbus landed in 1492, there were more people in the Americas than in Europe. T16:04:31-04:00 Charles Mann talked about his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, published by Alfred A.
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