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Writers feel very strongly about this issue because they want to know who was in the land that is now known as America before Columbus had declared this “New World” to be ours. This issue matters because there are still a lot of questions on how life was in this “New World” before Columbus had found it and how much population there actually was before he came. This issue is important because if we were ever find out how many or should I say what the population actually was, then that would give us a clue of how far they stretched across the land.

A good example of how population size would have affected us and the way we think would be, if we knew how many people were here then we would of probably chose less people to have come. This would have probably changed the outcome of a lot of thing like majority race, slavery, and many other things. You might be asking yourself how it would have affected majority race. Well it’s pretty simple the Native Americans of course were not white so if the new comers would have had had children with them then that would have been the first line of mixed heritage. Still in question about it? Will mixed heritage means no major supremacy which means no slavery. There’s a lot of examples of population size that can change the way we thing about early American history but the point of the fact is that it happened already and we can’t change the past, but we can learn from it and discover what could have been if we changed a few things. There is still a lot to reveal from our past that we do not know but with every day that passes we learn even more. A way that it changed my way of thinking or looking at Americas history is that if it weren’t for the size or amount of people that were already here we wouldn’t be here because they already knew how to survive in this and the new comers didn’t. That’s how I see it.