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A "New" Timeline for a "New" World




Illustrated above is a simplified timeline of American history as if it was traditionally taught vs. how American history is taught as seen in Black Ants and Buddhists. I feel it gives a visual expression of what is missing in many history courses. Many classes brush over thousands of years of history of the Americas while simultaneously going into detail of the same time period for cultures such as the Greeks, Romans, and numerous other cultures following those cultures. Black Ants and Buddhists attempts to give adequate time to the people who thrived in the Americas before the Europeans conquered the continent.

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