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0 pointshollerith1y ago0 comments

>The countries in the American continent start to count from when they were invaded by Europeans

That's because it is hard to learn about pre-Columbian America because we have very little writing from that period -- mainly because they didn't write much down compared to for example how much was recorded in writing by people in China 3,000 years ago.

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SubiculumCode1y ago

That there is history in the region is not really in contention, but rather that the concept of single "China" has endured millenia as a single civilization, and not the multi-cultural, multi-national, mileau that it was.

JumpCrisscross1y ago

> mainly because they didn't write much down compared to for example how much was recorded in writing by people in China 3,000 years ago

Civilisation in the Americas started later than in the Old World. Columbus also arrived in the wake of wide-ranging ecological disasters in Meso-America and the ancient Pueblan territories.

khuey1y ago

Also because the colonial period that followed intentionally destroyed much of the written record.

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