History questions <span title="..........................-">............................</span>

Question

The number of Indians in North America at the time Columbus arrived was approximately…

a. one million

b. four million

c. twenty million

d. two hundred and fifty million

Answer 1

A or B. It is usually said 2.5 million

Answer 2

probably b.

Why would you trust my answer, tho?

Answer 3

A bit more than C - Mexico alone had a population of 20M, the rest of the continent about 5M.  (Mexico City was the largest city in the world, when discovered.)

http://members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/ind...

Answer 4

It depends on where you look for your answer as to what answer you get. So I really can&#039;t help you.

When the Europeans came here, there were probably 10 million Indians north of present-day Mexico.

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/indian...

Ethnologist James Mooney, proposed a total count of 1,152,950 Indians in all tribal areas north of Mexico at the time of the European arrival.

According to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, North American Indian population is estimated 12 million in 1500.