True or False: North America was not inhabited before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492

This is false.

Explanation:

North America was in fact inhabited before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Five hundred years before Columbus, a band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement. Also, long before that, some scholars believe, the Americas seem to have been visited by  travelers from China, and perhaps by visitors from Africa and maybe even Ice Age Europe.

for starters, there is the structural trend of rising primary government expenditure as a share of gdp, which reached 36% in 2014, up from 22% in 1991. this increase reflected a political desire to address the poverty and inequality that had gone unaddressed during previous decades. to support the increase, brazil’s government increased taxes on consumption and promoted progress toward labor-market formalization. nonetheless, public investment, particularly in infrastructure, took a hit. in fact, with the exception of the 2005-2008 period, total investment as a share of gdp has remained below 20% since 1991.

what are local authorities doing to fix the problem

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