and you thought the native americans were all natural

I'm actually really suprised that I can understand this language, it has so much information and all of it is very densely packed. "stated so badly, this notion-that the indgenous people of the Americas floated changelessly through the millennia changelessly until 1492." If I was a little less expierienced, (not to sound pretentious) this statement would have tripped me up. Mrs embry's AP world class gave me alot of practice reading matierial like this.

The Author has a kind of whimsical tone, he sometimes puts a little bit of humor and whit in his writing. For example theirs a passage where hes talking about a tree that lives symbiotically with ants. So the tree is covered with ant's. the writer says " the ants attack anything that touches the tree-insect, bird, unwary writer." This kind of writing is nice because it provides comic relief from the educational "boring stuff."

The first group of people he describes are known as the Siriano. The Siriano are relevent because the terraformed their suroundings. The planes they live on flood with about six inches or more of water. The sirano and the indeginous people that lived their form a system of mounds and raised pathways, over hundreds of years. This had great benifits mainly for hunting because animals would be isolated on these mounds. And you thought Native Americans didn't effect thier surroundings.