<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 23px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; ">Most people today dismiss the notion that Columbus “discovered” a land that was already packed with 100 million people and 6,000 years of thriving <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17FzLkD2g7U" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">civilizations</a> (the earliest urban center with communal architecture is at Porvenir, Peru, dating back to 4930 B.C., according to Haas et al, 2004).</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; ">The world that Europeans “encountered” (read: “invaded”) was not that of a barren wilderness, sparsely populated by nomadic tribes; but a continent filled with wealthy, urban civilizations and complex, sedentary farming cultures. The Western Hemisphere of 1492 was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcaX5KEX6Bg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; ">a land of cities, writing, mathematics, astronomy, calend</a>ar...</p></span></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/12/1246553/-http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/12/1246553/-Columbus-and-The-Legacy-of-Genocide?detail=email?detail=email">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/12/1246553/-http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/12/1246553/-Columbus-and-The-Legacy-of-Genocide?detail=email?detail=email</a></body></html>