Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival
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#2Url changed from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-rain....
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#3When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest."
Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?
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#4When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest." Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?
Neither. They died.
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#5Great content!
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#6I recall reading about this some in the book 1491, which is quite interesting, and talks about how the Americas were prior to Columbus.
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#7When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest." Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?
They first tried to enslave them, but finished killing most of them as they obviously fought against it. Europeans behaving just like what we expect from white supremacists.
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#8When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest." Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?
They first tried to enslave them, but finished killing most of them as they obviously fought against it. Europeans behaving just like what we expect from white supremacists.
One presumes that the non-whites also felt supreme, until the moment that they weren't.
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#9I recall reading about this some in the book 1491, which is quite interesting, and talks about how the Americas were prior to Columbus. http://amzn.to/1HQYgSY
Seconding this recommendation - I'm planning on assigning this book in a college course on the Columbian Exchange next year. It's got the readability of a longform New Yorker article and the scholarly credibility of an academic book. Totally fascinating material that will up end much of what you learned in high school textbooks.
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#10When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest." Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?
You're not alone.
I was thinking about an initiative to publish books on recycled paper or something, then I finished reading the sentence.