The hundreds of American Indian groups that had developed by the late 1400s were shaped by the geographic conditions in which they lived.

already suffering the effects of European diseases.

mostly clustered along the coasts.

shaped by the geographic conditions in which they lived.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

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