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mies ? never to find any water in their homeland. Where and who? ? They came from Siberia (Siberians) ? Mongolia (Mongoloids) ? North China (Han Chinese). ? Nazca Lines They are yellowskinned, and have broad faces, high cheekbones and black and thick hair and beard. They are (mostly) color blind and their fingers have no figures of gongs. When in war time they paint their faces red and so they are also called “ red men” . ? When Christopher Columbus arrived, it was estimated that there were about 25 million American Indians in the whole western world. ? Now native Americans and Alaska Natives (Eskimos including Inuits and Aleuts) make up 2 percent of the American population, with more than 6 million people identifying themselves as such. ? warfare ? epidemic disease (smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles) ? displacement ? wipe out the buffalo American buffalo (Bison) Bison being chased off a cliff American bison galloping World39。s Largest Buffalo in Jamestown, North Dakota at the Frontier Village ? “ The only good Indian is a dead one.” ? Extermination reservation assimilation Trail of tears ? While some American Indians were historically huntergatherers, many practiced aquaculture and agriculture. ? They created monumental architecture, largescale anized cities, chiefdoms, states, and massive empires. The most famous three are Aztecs (Mexico), Mayas (Middle America), and Incas (Peru). ? Innumerable crops first domesticated by indigenous Americans are now produced and used globally. ? maize or corn, squash (pumpkins), pinto bean, lima beans, tomato, potato, peanuts, cacao beans, cucumber, strawberries, pineapples, peppers, sunflower seeds, rubber, some species of cotton, tobacco, coca Maize, Lima beans and pinto beans Water tower in Rochester, Minnesota being painted as an ear of maize ? cactus Ⅲ .Discovery of “ New World” ? 1 reasons of the discovery of “ New World” ? 2 Voyage of Christopher Columbus ? 3 Voyage o