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59.Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
59.欧洲人到来之前，谁生活在美洲？
Answer: Native Americans；American Indians
答案：美洲原住民；印第安人
Explanation: Most Americans are taught that an explorer (or a person who goes to an unknown place to learn about it) named Christopher Columbus discovered (or found) America in 1492.
解释：大多数美国人都被教导，一位名叫克里斯托弗·哥伦布的探险家（或前往未知之地去了解的人）在1492年发现了（或找到了）美洲。
But the truth is that millions of people were already living in North and South American before Christopher Columbus ever arrived on the American shore (or the land next to an ocean).
但事实是，在哥伦布到达美洲海岸（邻近海洋的土地）之前，就已经有数百万人生活在南北美洲。
Christopher Columbus was surprised to see the natives (or people who are born in America).
看到美洲原住民（或在美洲出生的人）克里斯托弗·哥伦布很是惊讶。
He thought that he had landed in the East Indies on his way to India, so he called the people he met there.
他以为他在去印度的途中登上了东印度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到的人为印第安人。
Today, these people are usually called American Indians or Native Americans.
如今，这些人通常被称为印第安人或美洲原住民。
The arrival of Christopher Columbus and other Europeans in the New World (or North and South America) was devastating (or extremely bad) for the Native Americans.
克里斯托弗·哥伦布和其他欧洲人的到来，对新世界（或南北美洲）的美洲原住民来说是灾难性的（或极其糟糕的）。
Millions of Native Americans died because of epidemic diseases, which were illnesses that made a large number of the Native Americans sick very quickly.
数百万美洲原住民死于流行疾病，也就是让很多美洲原住民迅速生病的疾病。
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