During the lectures the most surprising piece of information that I have learned so far would be the fact that Native Americans had cities much larger than what I had previously thought, These cities had more people living within them than some of Europe’s greatest cities, for example London England. In the 1500s between two and eighteen million people lived north of the Rio Grande. The unexpected information I have learned about the early Americas gave me a completely different understanding than what has previously been taught to me throughout most of my life. The common idea was that the Americas were sparsely inhabited by Indians whom lived simple lives deep within the forests. Even the imagined forests that the Natives inhabited were
