The Americas

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The misunderstanding of relationships between words inevitably leads to a misinterpretation. In terms of human relationships, you should not mistake one twin brother for the other. Much less between parents and their offspring.

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The first humans to reach the Americas, living as hunter-gatherers, arrived in the U.S. Southwest by 11,000 B.C. but possibly earlier, as part of the colonization of the New World from Asia by peoples ancestral to modern Native Americans. Agriculture did not develop indigenously in the U.S. Southwest, because of a paucity of domesticable wild plant and animal species. Instead, it arrived from Mexico, where corn, squash, beans, and many other crops were domesticated--corn arriving by 2000 B.C., squash around 800 B.C., beans somewhat later, and cotton not until A.D. 400. (Collapse, Jared Diamond, p.139) (The Korean version, p.199)

Dano's comments:
You will be flabbergasted to know that the bold-typed phrase the Americas was taken by a Korean translator to mean the United States. It's so miserable for the so-called translator not to notice the relationships revealed so vividly for him to see. The relationships between the Americas and Mexico are those of the whole and a part. You mean the North and South American continents by the Americas.