Q. 70 / 128American History → Colonial Period & Independence
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
OFFICIAL ANSWER
- American Indians
- Native Americans
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Context
Archaeological evidence shows human presence in the Americas dating back at least 15,000 years. By 1492, when Columbus arrived, millions of indigenous people lived across North and South America in hundreds of distinct tribal nations — from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the Northeast to the Cherokee in the Southeast to the Lakota on the Great Plains. European colonization brought catastrophic population decline through disease, warfare, and displacement.
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