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Lets see who gets this right... answer the information w/o looking it up or asking anyone.

1. Where did Columbus actually land?
2. Who were the original inhabitants of Americas?
3. What was the population of the original colonies during the early 1700's?

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Originally posted by: iamme
quit trying to get answers for your homework 🙁

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actually it's a survey to see how many people could answer even one of these correctly off the top of their head.
 
Originally posted by: lchyi
Originally posted by: InverseOfNeo

2. The Chinese
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Sure blame it on the Asians... :evil:
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IIRC, there is evidence that Chiness junk were sailed to the West Coast of the US before 1100.....but then again I am not sure if that was after the Vikings or not?


BTW, did I win?
 
Originally posted by: iloveme2
Lets see who gets this right... answer the information w/o looking it up or asking anyone.

1. Where did Columbus actually land?
2. Who were the original inhabitants of Americas?
3. What was the population of the US during the early 1700's?

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1. The West Indies
2. Native Americans or Indians if you prefer
3. I'm sure any total that is spit out will be incorrect unless someone has a Native American phonebook and can count all of them.
 
Originally posted by: InverseOfNeo

IIRC, there is evidence that Chiness junk were sailed to the West Coast of the US before 1100.....but then again I am not sure if that was after the Vikings or not?


BTW, did I win?
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I have never heard this mentioned before. (Eurocentric education?)
Are there any books or websites that you you know of that explain this?

 
Originally posted by: iloveme2
Lets see who gets this right... answer the information w/o looking it up or asking anyone.

1. Where did Columbus actually land?
2. Who were the original inhabitants of Americas?
3. What was the population of the US during the early 1700's?

😛
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1. Which year/voyage are you talking about?
2. It sure aint the dutch
3. More then one less then 6 billion
 
1. begins with an "s" as I recall... I want to say santo domingo but I don't even know if that's correct... could be a city in arizona for all I know.
2. you mean the native americans who crossed over the bering strait?
3. low 🙂
 
1. caribbean island
2. nobody, everybody came here after the americas split from the super land mass (whatever it was called)
3. zero, the "US" didn't exist in "the early 1700's"
 
Originally posted by: iloveme2
Originally posted by: FoBoT3. zero, the "US" didn't exist in "the early 1700's"
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I meant the original colonies.
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oh, it is hard to give accurate answers to inaccurate questions

then i would guess about 100,000 as InverseOfNeo did
 
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