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Atahualpa's Prayer
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Chris Borman

The city of gold idea is interesting.

I had heard the idea put forward, some what recently, that there had Infact been prosperous cities just a few short decades ago.

Disease worked ahead of the conquistadors, upto 90% of locals had died as a result.

Where there had been cities most of the inhabitants were dead and the jungle had gone some way to reclaiming them.

That's why they believed there were cities there.



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Amazing Places on Our Planet

This is a monumental work, congratulations!

yarvik93H

This series is the best, or one of the best, documentaries I have ever seen in my life. It is thorough, contextual, balanced, rich and lively. It vividly brings history to life with much needed context from start to finish. In terms of quality, it is way above anything mainstream.

Marty Ollier

Balanced? Yea... ok.

Fishofgold6

@Marty Ollier What's UNbalanced about it?

Avatar Wan

@Fishofgold6 It doesn't glorify the Spanish enough for their conquistadoral tastes.

Luke Rieman

The sorrow of these New World episodes is so deep. I think it's how comparatively recent it all is, and the feeling of how differently things could have gone. There's this overwhelming sense that we were so close to a future so different to our own, if only a few dice had been rolled differently. Perhaps it was inevitable that things would happen this way. But, to know that in just a few hundred years that these men and thier actions would be viewed with disgust and outrage, but with no way of undoing them, is harrowing. If there's one thing we should take away from these stories it's that the destruction of knowledge and culture cannot be undone, and it is universally regretted and mourned in time.

Anna Trombley

My sentiments as well. Just imagine if Europeans came to the Americas in a spirit of collaboration & humility!

Stephanie Romer

We always think things closer in time are the more relevant tragedies. Like that guy in the other cubicle over there doing that thing which makes your own life miserable 😂. Just trying to make a point… but it’s not actually true, if you lift your eyes above all these local things in time and space. There are higher meanings in all things, opportunities for learning and growth. We learn from the past and we grow. We don’t forget the stories now, and we can be much more accurate with science and combined knowledge. What is combined knowledge? Higher meaning. Like the invisible meaning hovering over the words I am making now. And in the invisible consciousness hovering over the cells in your brain. There is a soul of the world, and we were children then. The El Dorado is the meaning without which gold would be just another metal. The words just shapes on paper, the people just a collection of chemicals worth about a dollar.

Bennett Bullock

In the early 90s, when I was a teenager, I tried to imagine - with some degree of obsessiveness - an alternate history in which indigenous civilizations didn't collapse. It was the era of 1492 and "Dances with Wolves", in which American culture finally accepted that its treatment of Native Americans was, on the whole, evil. What type of people would be required for another outcome? Certainly not conquistadors who were only 1-2 generations away from the Reconquista. Could all this cruelty have been avoided had Europeans just behaved in a more enlightened way? Eventually, I realized this alternate history actually did happen ... with the Portuguese in China and Japan. The Portuguese arrived with the same desire for wealth and the same impulse to enslave the population. But China and Japan didn't disappear. I think the deciding factor was disease. We remember the cruelty inflicted directly on Native Americans by Europeans, but most Native Americans died of smallpox before even seeing a European. The Inca empire was already collapsing because of disease that was creeping through trade routes. Pizarro's psychopathic behavior was just the surface of a process that was far more horrible.

Jonas Richert

Beautiful story telling. Tasteful audio.

Don't change anything, your videos are works of art

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