Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas about one million people. The Maya population is today estimated at six million, which is about the same as at the end of the 15th century, according to some estimates. In what is now Brazil, the indigenous population declined from a pre-Columbian high of an estimated four million to some 300,000. While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from a low of 2.1 million to 7 million people to a high of 18 million. The aboriginal population of Canada during the late 15th century is estimated to have been
Literature of England and Elias of London - are known, together with Jacob ben Judah of London, author of a work on the ritual, "Etz Chaim", and Meïr of Norwich, a liturgical poet. Literature of England The literature of England is literature written in what is now England, or by English writers. It consists mainly of English literature - i.e. literature written in the English language - but there are important examples of literature from England written in other languages. This consists of a number of principally ecclesiastical and historical works, spanning a period of over a thousand years. Bede's "Historia ecclesiastica gentis