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Yes, particularly when you consider how different the landscape must have been before it was settled and deforested.
by beart 5y ago
Yes, particularly when you consider how different the landscape must have been before it was settled and deforested.
- pramsey 5y agoIt was already settled, just not by white folk. In fact that would be another whole aspect of the adventure. Over each rise a whole new culture, which may or may not welcome or tolerate you.
- beart 5y agoGood point, that was a poor choice of language on my part.
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- ncmncm 5y agoNotably, before smallpox wiped out most of the North American population, the continent was largely deforested. Deliberately. Bison ranged to Louisiana. The "little ice age" after ~1500 is suspected to have been caused by the pulse of reforestation, and thus dip in carbon dioxide, occasioned by the disappearance of the long-time stewards of open range land. In the 14th century, a very large expedition west from Africa is documented, with likelihood part of it reached South America. (One ship was separated and returned, reporting fresh water out of sight of land, suggestive of Amazon outflow.) There is ecological evidence of pre-Columbian disruption in Amazonia thereafter.