Included is a chapter recording the modern economy and government of our time, and the last chapter recalls the famous citizens who have called our state home. Charles A. Millson received a B.A. in History from Freed-Hardeman University in 1987. Included in this chapter are such items as population growth and geography. This information is vital to put North Carolina in perspective of the other United States. Prehistory refers to the time when there were no written records.
History begins with the written record of man.
There was a time in our state's past when the events that took place were not recorded by written record. This was before the coming of European explorers. This chapter will answer these and other questions about North Carolina in prehistoric times. The European explorers and settlers who first came to North Carolina found that the Native Americans had a vastly different culturte. The difference in culture between these two groups resulted in distrust, hatred, and eventually fighting.