Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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So it's not stopped. Terra Preta is still being made but most of it is very old and the oldest that they found so far is about 8,000 years old.
Yeah, that's right. See, a rainforest, even when you choose trees that are going to serve human needs, it's not enough. You do need to be able to plant in the rainforest. And that is what Terra Preta has allowed people to do. Rainforest soils are not particularly fertile.
That's exactly what happened.
That's what happened. I mean, before the lost city of Z, we have this very interesting report. I have mentioned it to you before in a previous episode. The expedition of Gaspar de Carvajal and his chronicler, Francisco de Oriana... which was an accidental expedition. They were just going hunting in a longboat, but the Amazon took them and wouldn't let them go back.
And they traveled 4,000 miles across South America and ended up on the Pacific side and ended up in the Atlantic Ocean. Wow. And that's in the 1550s, 1560s. And they report seeing enormous, thriving, prosperous cities, highly civilized with advanced arts and crafts. Wow.
And they were not believed because 100 years later, when other Spaniards made that voyage and went into the Amazon, they couldn't find the cities. And the reason they couldn't find them is precisely the reason that you give, which is that the jungle had eaten those cities because the human population had been wiped out by disease brought by the Spaniards.
The Spaniards didn't have to have direct contact with those indigenous peoples in the middle of the Amazon. The diseases just jumped from population to population and just killed everybody.
Absolutely.
It's an early example of a biological weapon. Yeah, right. And to some extent, it was used deliberately as a biological weapon, like those smallpox-infected blankets.
It may well be a rumor. But from what I've looked at from the Spanish conquest of Mexico, there was a realization that we can kill these people with smallpox. And it was spread. God. And we have some immunity to it that they don't have.
Yeah. The diseases did. I mean the battles did kill some people. Sure. But not on the order of the diseases. Mexico City fell to the Spaniards. Primarily because of disease and secondarily because the Aztecs weren't popular with their neighbors. So it really wasn't just Cortes and 400 Spaniards.
It was Cortes and 400 Spaniards plus smallpox plus the Tlaxcalans who the Aztecs had used as a sort of farm for human sacrifices for 100 years.
And the Tlaxcalans looked at Cortes and they said, we can use this guy. And so they joined him. He had tens of thousands of Tlaxcalan warriors. Otherwise, he would not have had that victory.
It's a very curious thing. And again, the moment we start talking about people's facial features, then they jump in with you're being a racist, you're being a white supremacist or whatever. Although the Olmec heads don't serve white supremacism.
Again, the racism angle is just being used to shut it down. This is something that we, particularly in the climate in the world today.
I did, yeah.
I've noticed people doing that.
To enhance the algorithm.
I think it's very unfortunate that in serious and interesting discussions about the past. That this issue of race immediately gets dumped into it. Yeah. Because those who are dumping race into the issue know that that's a way to shut down a conversation. Nobody wants to be accused of being a racist.
No, that was an African civilization.
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