SURVIVING the Amazon: How the First Conquistadors SURVIVED the DEADLY River of Darkness

What a bunch of parasites

Sadly Measles and smallpox is likely what wiped out this great civilization. Think of how much knowledge and history died with them.

There was a semi true movie.about this / the wrayh of AGUIRRE- KLAUS KINSKI STARRING
GERMAN DIRECTOR

Great video, man. This is a highly interesting subject and you’ve covered it well.

Recommended viewing: "Aguirre the Wrath of God."

""[...Francisco Pizarro and his company] arrived at Puerto Viejo, and to Santa Helena, where they saw a large quantity of bones of giants, that according to their proportion, were 20 palms [approximately 15 ft] tall." ~ Antonio de la Calancha. Augustinian monk & anthropologist. "The Moral Chronical of the Order of Saint Augustine in Peru, 1663""

plz talk closer to the mic...it will sound 10X better

Very well done. This has been my long held belief as well that the Old World pathogens unknowingly brought by the conquisadors completely collapsed the massive interior civilizations. The descriptions of houses on the river right next to one another during a long section of river sounds a whole lot like a ripe setup for easy pathogen spread. Couple that with the giant road networks which are likely evidence of major trade activity & it is clear to me they all collapsed due to disease & sudden population loss.

Anyone who has lived near tropical forests can attest to just how fast the forest takes over what has been abandoned. Many of the Amazonian tribes have oral histories that compliment this account including the massive roadways. LIDAR is just beginning to scratch this truth & I promise discoveries of populations of mindbending size will eventually be discovered adding a whole new chapter to New World history.

These were tough men, keep in mind that Spaniards before that had been at one war or another without interruptions for nearly 800 years.

I find it hard to reconcile the efforts you made with the interesting content and editing with how poor the sound is in this video. Please pay attention to the sound. It is very low volume and frustrating to listen to.

The real shit is when they must've first seen the grand canyon.

why didn't they fish in the river?

You need to get a mic, man. Audio sucks.

Um the volume is all over the place. And we don't need to see your face. More illustrations and pics would be better. Get it right dude!

hahah do you not know the difference between indians and indigenous people? they were indigenous not indians. Come on "white guy"

a lot of their writings are exaggerated though. its always 600 Spanish men vs 300,000 natives or some shit

Very cool, Rio Negro / Napo River / Quito i'm very familiar with that area!

Damn them all. I wish they hadn’t prevailed. They are still evil.

Where do we find old texts

Imagine how this land who have been now if the Native Americans would have killed ever disease field, white and Spanish people that came over. If only I had a Time Machine

Top tier video

Uhhhmmmm …. They survived by being liars and waging war mostly on women and children as well as old people while the men were off hunting

You don’t need to be a scientist to figure you’re probably right about the diseases. One of the many necessary events needed for globalization.

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The amount of Native Amazonians that mustve died or left the forest due to deforestation must be in the millions. We forget how big the amazon is bc we only see what we see on a map when in reality its only 75% its original size. There arent many indigenous tribes left. There are a decent amount but not what it used to be.

The ability for those early Spaniards to survive in the jungle was truly remarkable.

"La reina de las Amazonas se llama Calafia y su reino California" del libro Las sergas de esplandian

What’s with the comments of (particularly White) people saying the natives were sacrificial savages that deserved it. Let’s not forget the European barbarian tribes were equally worse. The only difference is culture and their skin color because of equatorial conditions.

Man the sound mixing

Is there a video from this channel where specifically the sexual practices of the Native Americans described by the Conquistadors or any other Europeans? Similarly maybe a video that describes in detail how widespread sexual contact (whether rape or consensual) was there between Europeans and the natives? I am interested in the sexual ethics of the different native groups, but also how the so called Christians justified sexual violence in instances of rape or random encounters.

NO SOUND ?? FUK THIS !!

Imagine you know two Daves and you call one Dave the Lesser.

Good stuff as always. You need to up your microphone game, good sir. Can't understand very well. Maxed out the sound.....

How the hell were they starving in the Amazon?!?! It’s full of life plants and animals! Hell those rivers are full of fish.

Sound quality and volume isn’t very good :/

Very interesting video but volume is so low i can barely hear it.

I've lived and traveled in the Amazon basin for 8 months in 2006. it's almost impossible to starve their in my experience. Fish abound in the rivers. With nothing more complex than a bow, or bare handsl to catch them with. Also monkeys, pigs, agoutis, snakes, turtles. Eggs, and tapirs are teeming in the jungle. Heart of palm, Yucca and cacao, also

Great video

The Spanish conquistadors and explorators passed displaying 2 bollocks like 2 atmospheric balloons.

What surprised me most was that the Napo river natives didn’t even have bows and arrows. I guess they used wooden tipped weapons, which explains why the Spanish didn’t lose many men until they reached the Amazons.

Boiled saddle leather? Sounds delicious

Try reading the account properly without your modern embellishments

I've been to the Amazon. Everything there is trying to kill you. The fish, the monkeys, the bees, hornets, scorpions, spiders, snakes, crocodiles, ants, jaguars, the heat, the plants, even the ground. It's a place of insanity.

Great Job!!!

why do you talk like youre disappointed

Thank you for the very interesting and informative video. I have a hard time sometimes with history, but listening to you makes it easy to understand! When I was a kid in school, teachers made history class boring. But now I have found you, and my interest is peeked. So, thanks again and I look forward to next lesson.

Volume is ass

Epic video man