3- Complete the text with was/were. There ____________ an important Historic event in 1492. Christopher Columbus And his ships ____________ in “The New World”. It ____________ the discovery of America. But that ____________ a tragedy for the real first Americans: the Indians. North American Indians ____________ free and happy at that time. There ____________ many different tribes por nations, all with their rich culture, their old traditions, their different languages and customs. And now? More than five hundred years after Columbus? There are about two thousand Indians living in America today. In the past there ____________ about six million.