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"1491" is a most fantastic book about all of this.
by sho_hn 4y ago
"1491" is a most fantastic book about all of this.
- nkingsy 4y agoRelevant to this question is the story of Cortez and his pigs. Spain immediately set up shop in South America, giving us plenty of stories of vast civilizations, but Cortez made just one minor expedition across Florida and did report large cities, but only the pigs and their disease stayed behind.
- fiftyfifty 4y agoThere was an article written by the author of 1491 in the Atlantic that is a great abbreviated version of the book for anyone interested: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...