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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Researchers of Indigenous cultures have frequently missed the forest for the trees.
Chapter 3: The Beni was home to an advanced pre-Columbian civilization.
Chapter 4: Native Americans didn’t just live off nature; they engineered their environment.
Chapter 5: North American Indians used fire to remake the landscape.
Chapter 6: So many Indians died after 1500 that the global climate changed dramatically.
Chapter 7: Modern farming practices are destroying the Amazon rainforest.
Chapter 8: Many crops falter in the Amazon, yet fruit orchards flourish there.
Chapter 9: Amazonian Indians developed sustainable farming thousands of years ago.
Chapter 10: Central American farmers changed the way the world eats.
Description
1491 (2005) is a study of the Western Hemisphere before 1492, the year in which an Italian sailor employed by the Spanish empire first set foot in the Americas. Within a century of Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World, some of humanity’s most sophisticated cultures had all but disappeared. In 1491, Charles Mann sets out to recover their ways of life and remarkable achievements.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs
- Myth-busters
- Americaphiles