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  • Writer's pictureWilliam Tyler

Rivers class Thursday 24th March

RIVER AMAZON


1. INTRODUCTION

In our imagination - The Lost World - Etymology - Facts and Figures

2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

History and culture - Exploitation and Resistance - Present day crisis of Peoples

and environment

3. EUROPEANS

Arrival - Spain and Portugal - End of Colonial Rule - Exploitation of indigenous

Peoples - Quinine - Rubber - Fordlandia - City of Manaus

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