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and what was here even before the Indians were here.

I could see why they called this the "New World" and why it appeared to be a new world. Other cultures - Europe and all of its countries, Africa and many of its countries, India, Russia, Asia, etc., were all developed. They had cities, doctors, artists, armies, schools, chefs, castles, clothing and shoe fashions, and horses and cattle, chickens, etc.

America had trees, fish, deer, and an early native population when Columbus happened on its shores. I'd like to know about America from before 1000BCE to 1000AD to know why there was no development or what the hell happened to it. This was not a world any newer than the world that existed. Why did it appear so?
A topic for another forum I think.

1491 might answer some of those questions if somebody back then had asked them...