America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization: A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse

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North America is the fourth most populous continent after Asia, Africa, and Europe. [117] Its most populous country is the U.S. with 329.7 million persons. The second largest country is Mexico with a population of 112.3 million. [118] Canada is the third most populous country with 37.0 million. [119] The majority of Caribbean island-nations have national populations under a million, though Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico (a territory of the U.S.), Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago each have populations higher than a million. [120] [121] [122] [123] [124] Greenland has a small population of 55,984 for its massive size (2,166,000km 2 or 836,300mi 2), and therefore, it has the world's lowest population density at 0.026 pop./km 2 (0.067 pop./mi 2). [125] Land Bridge Linking Americas Rose Earlier Than Thought". LiveScience.com. 10 April 2015. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015 . Retrieved 3 October 2015. Volcanic eruptions are common in the region. In 1968 the Arenal Volcano, in Costa Rica, erupted and killed 87 people. Fertile soils from weathered volcanic lavas have made it possible to sustain dense populations in agriculturally productive highland areas. Toronto's population overtakes Chicago". Toronto Star. 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013 . Retrieved 6 September 2017. Norteamérica"[North America] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. In Ibero-America, North America is considered a subcontinent containing Canada, the United States, Mexico, Greenland, Bermuda and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

Royal Berglee, PhD (17 June 2016). "Chapter 5, Middle America". University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018 . Retrieved 3 April 2018. The southern portion of North America includes Central America and non-English speaking Caribbean nations. [27] [28] The north of the continent maintains recognized regions as well. In contrast to the common definition of North America, which encompasses the whole North American continent, the term "North America" is sometimes used more narrowly to refer only to four nations, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and the U.S. [29] [30] [31] [32] [33]The World Factbook: Haiti". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 9 February 2021 . Retrieved 11 June 2011. The World Factbook – North America". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011 . Retrieved 20 June 2011. Religions in Canada—Census 2011". Statistics Canada/Statistique Canada. 8 May 2013. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015 . Retrieved 18 July 2015. The North American economy is well defined and structured in three main economic areas. [145] These areas are those under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), and the Central American Common Market (CACM). [145] Of these trade blocs, the U.S. takes part in two. In addition to the larger trade blocs there is the Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement among numerous other free-trade relations, often between the larger, more developed countries and Central American and Caribbean countries.

In the years immediately following the Revolutionary War, the rural South—the region where slavery had taken the strongest hold in North America—faced an economic crisis. The soil used to grow tobacco, then the leading cash crop, was exhausted, while products such as rice and indigo failed to generate much profit. As a result, the price of enslaved people was dropping, and the continued growth of slavery seemed in doubt. According to the Court, Congress had no constitutional power to deprive persons of their property rights when dealing with enslaved people in the territories. The verdict effectively declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, ruling that all territories were open to slavery and could exclude it only when they became states. Canada and the United States are the wealthiest and most developed nations on the continent followed by Mexico, a newly industrialized country. [91] The countries of Central America and the Caribbean are at various levels of economic and human development. For example, small Caribbean island-nations, such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Antigua and Barbuda, have a higher GDP (PPP) per capita than Mexico due to their smaller populations. Panama and Costa Rica have a significantly higher Human Development Index and GDP than the rest of the Central American nations. [92] Additionally, despite Greenland's vast resources in oil and minerals, much of them remain untapped, and the island is economically dependent on fishing, tourism, and subsidies from Denmark. Nevertheless, the island is highly developed. [93]National Household Survey (NHS) Profile, 2011". 8 May 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018 . Retrieved 29 January 2022. Up until the 1970s, these first Americans had a name: the Clovis peoples. They get their name from an ancient settlement discovered near Clovis, New Mexico, dated to over 11,000 years ago. And DNA suggests they are the direct ancestors of nearly 80 percent of all indigenous people in the Americas. Congress, however – although both houses were controlled by the Democrats – contained strong voices opposing intervention. This opposition was based on a long-term ‘isolationist’ tradition, whose adherents did not want America – protected as it was by broad oceans – to become ‘entangled’ with foreign countries and wars overseas. Both in Congress and among the American public, this sentiment had been strengthened by the experience of World War I, which isolationists claimed America had only entered in 1917 because US manufacturers wanted to make a profit by selling munitions.

Bernard Grunberg, "La folle aventure d'Hernan Cortés", in L'Histoire n°322, July–August 2007 [ incomplete short citation] A native of Connecticut, John Brown struggled to support his large family and moved restlessly from state to state throughout his life, becoming a passionate opponent of slavery along the way. After assisting in the Underground Railroad out of Missouri and engaging in the bloody struggle between pro- and anti-slavery forces in Kansas in the 1850s, Brown grew anxious to strike a more extreme blow for the cause. a b These population estimates are for 2010, and are taken from "The World Factbook: 2010 edition". Government of the United States, Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 26 November 2015 . Retrieved 14 October 2010. Shogren, Elizabeth (16 August 2013). "N. America's Oldest Known Petroglyphs Discovered In Nevada". NPR. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020 . Retrieved 12 December 2018.Panorama de las religiones en México 2010" (PDF) (in Spanish). INEGI. p.3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2015 . Retrieved 2 March 2015. Middle America (region, Mesoamerica)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011 . Retrieved 20 June 2011. Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake". Wired. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011 . Retrieved 1 June 2011. As the amount of Spanish colonists increased, the Indigenous populations across the islands decreased. Countless Native people died from European diseases such as smallpox and measles, to which they had no immunity. On top of that, the settlers often forced the islanders into labor in the fields, and if they resisted they would either be killed or sent to Spain as slaves. While these tales from the Middle Ages might appear mythical, archaeologists actually uncovered tangible evidence supporting these sagas. Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad found remains of a Viking settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland in the 1960s — right where the Norse legend claimed Erikson had set up camp.