This is what the entirety of South America looked like in 1499 - one year before the first European colony of Portugal's Ilha de Santa Cruz in Northern Brazil
What the fuck was going on in the east of South America at this time?
Why was it so empty?
Did the Portuguese even colonise anything other than trees?
there's been some recent findings in the amazon of hidden structure and cities/towns
Really?
All of the Indigenous-Sudaca shit I hear about all relates to the Inca Empire.
when columbus showed up, he met lively settlements with 50 man trading canoes. on his first voyage, he made contact with a lot of people, banged a bunch of brown girls, and went back to europe to make a second voyage.
on the second voyage, in true european style, it was a voyage of conquest. he brought a bunch of soldiers to rape, murder, enslave and pillage. a lot of them happened to be sick this time around, bringing plagues that murdered 95% of the new world. a ticking biological time bomb just waiting for someone to set it off.
anyway, i cant blame columbus for the disease, nobody understood it at all. but to find an entirely new, amazing, beautiful world, and your first response is to destroy and enslave it? wtf columbus
>bringing plagues that murdered 95% of the new world.
look up la mosquitia. the entire new world was settled and was wiped out by european plagues in the course of 2-3 years.
>empty
Just because there wasn't a unified political entity doesn't mean there weren't people living there, fucking retard. There were millions of natives living along the coast and in the forests.
that still doesn't explain why it was completely unmapped with no civilisation prior to the Europeans setting foot on the land.
The incas had the west, but what about the east?
>What the fuck was going on in the east of South America at this time?
jungle tribes and shit
basically civ only developed on the skirts of the Andes range
How is the conquest taught in Brazilian school?
Are the Euros represented as the bad guys?