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| l | Arguments about
the population |
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| of the Americas
have been going |
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| l | Most scholars now
agree that |
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| Mesoamerica and
the Andes had |
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populations. |
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| l | If we accept a
total of 67 million, |
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| in a world
population of about 500 |
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| million,
Americans clearly were a |
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| major segment of
humanity. |
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