Amazon
All the events and periods discusses in this article and the following few articles belong to the Pre-Columbian era, until I move over this period.
Here goes the wikipedia quote about Amazon, as usual:
Amazon
Some 5 to 7 million people lived in the Amazon region, divided
between comparatively dense coastal settlements and more nomadic inland
dwellers. The latter lived on a complex combination of swiddlen agriculture,
alteration of the forest ecosystem, and hunting and gathering.[1]The question is:
1) which part of the continent is called Amazon region specificly?
2)When did this happen?
3)Any pictures of any things from this period?
To be continued...
reminder of the previous post about time:
Humans moved to America 10,000 years BCE. Over the course of millennia, people spread to all parts of the continent. By the first millennium CE, South America’s vast rainforests, mountains, plains, mountain and coasts were the home of tens of millions of people.
posted by flowingdust @ 12:59 PM
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No technically based definition of 'Amazon region' was found on website so far. Based on hydrological approach, here I just use the description of 'Amazon Basin' as if it is the exact answer: part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
The term Pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the New World in the era before significant European influence. While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus, in practice the term usually includes indigenous cultures as they continued to develop until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus first landed in 1492 CE.
The term Pre-Columbian is used especially often in discussions of the great indigenous civilizations of the New World, such as those of Mesoamerica (e.g., the Aztec and Maya) and the Andes (Inca, Moche,Chibcha, etc).
So pre-columbian era in South America means the period before colonization.
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