The America that greeted the first Europeans was, thus, far from an empty wilderness. It is now thought that as many people lived in the Western Hemisphere as in Western Europe  at that time – about 40 million / estimates of the number of Native Americans living in what is now the United States at the onset of European colonization range from two to 18 million , with most historians tending toward the lower figure.Â
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