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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
No, it didn't. Mexico, the rest of Central America, and what is now Brazil had very large native populations. North America was almost completely empty by comparison.
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While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million people to a high of 18 million. The population of what is now the United States was nearly 2 million.
Not exactly empty.
The population of the United Kingdom in 1500 was 3 million.