摘要：The bow and arrow, and the spear were superior weapons to the musket. Pre-Columbian American cities were often populated with numbers of people far and away larger than the smaller cities of London and Paris in the 16th century. Nations managed jungles and forests like massive gardens. But for the ravages of introduced disease and a few societies over-reaching in their efforts to manage the environment that broke the back of a hemispheric population of an estimated 110 million people, the western hemisphere could today be dominated by indigenous nations instead of the descendents of western European settlers.
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