Charles C. Mann begins 1491 with an account of his journey to Beni and the researcher Holmberg, who wrote Nomads of the Longbow, an influential book that become the main source of the world’s view of Latin America. This book depicted the Native American inhabitants as a prehistoric tribe living in untamed wilderness, an idea which persisted throughout history. Furthermore, the notion that Native Americans arrived through a land bridge was challenged and the idea of Neolithic Revolutions in Latin America arose. Mann also briefly describes the vast societies such as Wari and Tiwanku, which challenge the idea of Native Americans living secluded in the wilderness. The idea that much of the information I was taught in grade school is wrong is not