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I was wondering the same. It must have been quite the effort to recreate from historical documents and accounts.
Without written language, how accurate do you think hundreds of years of history would be after going through an apocalyptic population collapse?
Many American cultures were lost entirely. Who would be representing them in this graphic?
Without written records, the only viable way I know is oral knowledge and artifacts. Cultures that disappeared without leaving records are gone forever, their knowledge is lost.
Right, but we know of some from archeological finds.
The big issue is that disease wiped out 90%+ of those populations, so later visitors really couldn't even learn what had been there.
small pox, influenza and covid-19
I wonder how they know much of this, beyond the areas documented by the Spanish.