Natural cultivation took in the whole of the US. Many more acres than are under cultivation today. Also, you ignored the Indians who grew crops, many, many acres of them before the Spanish wiped them out with diseases such as measles and small pox.
To think that honey bees are the only polinizers in the US, or on the planet, is just plain idiotic. Many crops were raised here in this country before honey bees were imported to the US also. How do you account for that? As I said, nature doesn't rely on one method to do a job. Crops will be pollinated.
Many insects besides bees pollinate crops.
For one thing ALL honey bees are not dead. Just two days ago an ER was shut down because a swarm of 7000 honey bees covered the ambulance entrance and they had to call a bee keeper to come get them.
I have hives near my home and the bees are just fine and thriving. As I said, this is the latest scrare tatic. If all else fails we can import bees to this country again, there are plenty in Europe, South America and Africa to draw from.
So take your head out from under the covers and stop quaking in fear, the problem(if one really exists) will be solved.
Of course other insects pollinate. What a lousy straw-man argument.
But are you suggesting that the Native American tribes grew more acres of crops in pre-Colombian days than what we grow today?
That’s ludicrous!
Even the Cahokia didn’t have near the agriculture that modern day St. Louis has within a 100 mile radius. And while the main city of the Cahokia would have dwarfed most major European cities at it apex (around 1200AD), it would have been a decent sized suberb of St. Louis in today’s standard (around the size of Belleville, IL if I remember correctly).
Even at the most inflated estimate of the most ardent pro-Native pre-Colombian pseudo-historian, the population of the “New World” would have been around 100 million people pre-1492.
The population of the U.S., Mexico, and Brazil alone is 6 times that amount. The whole of North and South America just crests over 1 billion people.
There is no way that native agriculture was any where near then what it is now. Not a chance.