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41. The 100 million

Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:11 AM

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That's the number generally thought of as all of the people living in both of the American continents in 1492. The people actually living in what became the United States would be a small fraction of that (5-million maybe). That's not to say it wasn't still a genocide, but I see that 100M figure quoted so much, when it was two continents worth of people, not what is now the modern US.

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