A Brief History Of The Americas Before Columbus Arrived

1491 by Charles C. Mann.

A brief history of the Americas, politically and culturally, before Columbus arrived.

0:00 Introduction
0:26 A View From Above Around Year 1000
4:47 The Europeans Arrive In North America
7:13 Inca Civilisation, Pizarro And Disease Epidemic
14:05 Teotihuacan, Aztec Civilisation And Hernan Cortez
17:41 Origins and The Neolithic Revolution
23:12 The Olmecs And Other Early Mesoamerican Cultures
25:15 Tiwanaku, Wari and The Chimors
27:34 Maya Civilisation
29:51 North American Cultures
32:54 Cultures Of The Amazon Jungle
35:45 Coda
37:27 Concluding Commentary

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THERE ARE POSSIBLE INACCURACIES IN THIS VIDEO:

In general population estimates vary widely, depending on who you ask, whether for cities or the general population of pre-Columbian America.

Estimates in this video tend to tilt towards the higher end of the spectrum.

(14:50) Teotihuacans area was not as large as stated. Its more accurate to say that it's influence and trade spread as far as the area stated in the video, but it weren't directly under their control.

(16:05) Tlactelel was only "religious leader" from "1397-1487", not through the entire period as may be interpreted from what's said in the video.

(16:35) Constantinople was perhaps larger than Paris and possibly also Teotihuacan.

(16:48) Cortes would rule the Empire for about 6 months, not for a couple of months as stated in the video.

(17:45) The notion that the indigenous thought the Europeans to be gods might be a myth, and is still debated amongst historians to this day.

(19:05) The picture is slightly misleading, since the picture proposes that the first people came to the Americas by crossing the frozen sea, which was not the case, or at least not the typical theory.

The typical theory proposes that the first people who came to the Americas crossed the Bering Strait Land Bridge, which was an area that was then bare land, due to most water in the ocean being frozen as glaciers, thereby lowering sea levels world wide.

(29:23) Significant parts of the Maya remained in the North, and would remain there until the 17th century.