Pre-Columbian American Impact

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The word pre-Columbian is used to discuss the history of the Americas in the era before European impact. Pre-Columbian was frequently used in discussing the abundant civilizations of the Americas. During pre-Columbian America, there was nothing, but wilderness and Indians. There were about thirty thousand square miles of desert. The Indians set fires to the trees to kill the area. When they did this, adapted plant species were made. Indians caught fish in the flooded grasslands. When they modified the forest, they created fields to grow food, roads to travel on, houses to live in, and towns for needed goods. Earlier than Columbus, the Western Hemisphere was inhabited with amazing cities and towns. Numerous caves in the mountains were sprayed