[Eric in the Ozarks]

I worked my way through “1493” and am now reading the first of this series titled “1491.” Both by Charles Mann.
According to Mann's research, some of the old Spanish records indicate more than five million Mexica in the Mexico City basin alone...

[driftless2]

If you look at the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, you’ll see larger numbers. But north of Mexico, the numbers were probably never more than five million. The historians looked at the absence of cities and the nomadic life of most Indians and calculated that it would have been very difficult to build up large numbers of people. We must be wary of work done by leftist academicians who look to inflate numbers for political purposes.