American Holocaust: Amazonian Apocalypse

Nossas histórias | Na floresta amazônica, um povo indígena luta pela sobrevivência (ACNUDH)

The Amazonian Apocalypse

Untamed Beauty of the Amazon (freepik.com)

(Lost in Context) For some 10,000 years the world was split into two isolated spheres, each unaware of the other's existence.

Then in 1492 the so-called "Old World" collided with the new, unleashing a cascade of devastation unlike anything humanity had ever witnessed. What followed was without parallel the darkest chapter in human history.

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:19 European arrival
• 02:21 Orellana's expedition
• 06:15 Portuguese take control
• 09:26 Manaus to Santarem
• 13:16 Destruction of the Amazonians
• 21:46 The holocaust of disease
• 25:55 The rubber boom

It didn't stop in the Amazon. It ruined pre-USA

This video tells the tragic story of the destruction of the people of the Amazon rainforest and, through its lens, the holocaust of the entire Western Hemisphere.

Sources (for the Amazon series)

• John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008
• Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River, 2018
• Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005
• Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011
• McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribean, 2010
• Grandin, Greg, Fordlandia, 2009
• Lost in Context, Dec. 9, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly