[sien]

So pretty much the most Christian developed country in the world is free of what you term 'Pre-Columbian' culture?

Christianity is a fusion of Greek, Roman and Jewish thought.

The founding fathers of the US were profoundly Christian. Their politics of the day was largely what made sense to ex-British subjects. The revolution of 1688 affects the US vastly.

US political systems were created built on thousands of years of European History. Prior to 1492 US history is European History.

The US has altered and changed the ideals and beliefs that the people who founded it started with but it was not a Blank Slate.

Just because Jerusalem and Rome are not in Ohio it doesn't mean they affect the US any less than they do Sweden.

[rdl]

I meant that the Aztecs, Maya, Inca, and other Native Americans are largely irrelevant to how US culture developed (which is I think your point), not that US culture is independent of everything which happened before Europeans came to the US.

"Pre-Columbian American culture" being that of the various Native Americans, not of the world in general pre-Columbus.

(I wish I could s/Colombian/Columbian; so easy to get those confused in various contexts)

[waterlesscloud]

Pre-Columbian culture means the cultures of the peoples indigenous to the Americas prior to European colonization.

Think of cultures like the Sioux, Iriquois, Navajo, Mayans, Incas, Aztec, etc etc.