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    America Before Columbus
    America Before Columbus
    America Before Columbus
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    America Before Columbus

    By Matt Green

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    Who where the first Americans?

    The story is intriguing, and the fascinating narrative will hold the reader's complete attention.
    Most of the inhabitants were wiped out by plagues brought by the Europeans.
    You will learn how "Indians" lived throughout the Americas before 1492 and Columbus, only isolated bits of the story have reached the popular press.
    If your knowledge of the Native Americans begins and ends with what you learned in school years ago, or with the stereotypes perpetuated by Hollywood, you are in for quite a shock.
    This is not a book which will please many with an agenda on either the pro-development or pro-environment side, but it will be found invaluable by those who seek a better understanding of the "New World" before the Europeans "discovered" it.

    Grab your history book now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatt Green
    Release dateSep 29, 2016
    ISBN9781370701421
    America Before Columbus
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    Matt Green

    Matt Green is an international best-selling author who writes about celebrity figures and their real stories. Matt's goal is to make celebrity biographies more accessible and enjoyable by the readers. His books are easy-to-read, short to the point and with very interesting facts about how normal people rose to stardom. He lives with his wife Kate in Surbiton, London, United Kingdom.

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      America Before Columbus - Matt Green

      America Before Columbus – History Series

      Matt Green

      Published by Matt Green at Smashwords

      Copyright© 2016 Matt Green

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

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      Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Summer, 1492, after three months at sea, Santa Maria, the Pinta, the Nina has sailed off the Bahamas. Europe has discovered the America.

      What happens next?

      Conquest and colonization by settlers who remake America in their image. They advanced and destroyed. But there is another story but the animals and plants they brought here and what they found here and how the Americas were completely transformed.

      It all began 500 years ago.

      Christopher Columbus left his home in Italy to fight for his vision. He aimed to sail west to the riches of Asia. This is an era of discovery and lust of expansion, and it began with a vision of a queen.

      In the Europe the nobles grew wealthy by trading with the east, spices and gold, gemstones and silk, the most lucrative goods. But Europeans have lost their silk rope to the Turks and foreign trade is in decline, the wealth of kings is in danger. Isabella, the queen of Spain, is desperate to find new routes to India and she has a plan.

      This is the most powerful woman in Europe, a continent of expanding horizons and filled with competitive and invented souls. For 500 years, they have been building castles, palaces, and centers of trade.

      Kings and popes have raised armies to fight each other and their enemies on Europe’s borders. Nowhere else a rivalry so intense, gold fever so wide spread, religious fervor and business expertise is as tightly wound as in Europe in 1491. Ideas are advancing, curiosity and the thirst for power push Europe’s limits. They are seeking riches and land, heading towards the frontiers of their world. But no one can guess, that far beyond the end of that world, lies another, which they know nothing.

      The Amazon is a crowded place.

      The Andes cradle a vast empire

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