1491

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

1491

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population…

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