Where I live, I have to have this conversation way too often with people.
Early Modern Period (~1600 AD)
Medieval Period (~1000 AD)
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I mean, it is literally the stone age for North America. Even if you want to count Chalcolithic societies in Mesoamerica as out of the stone age, most of North America is still in the neolithic at the time of European discovery. Hell, one of the core features of the neolithic stone age is agriculture and plant domestication.