5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 10 J

COMMENTS:

*The Amazon River is considered the odyssey of the South American Continent because of all the things that it produces and all the economy that it provides for most of the South American countries.

*”The Amazon jungle is one of the last true frontiers left on Earth. The Amazon basins are nearly the same size as the continental United States”. Page # 244

*Also, the Amazon jungle is situated primarily within the borders of Brazil, but most of the pieces are locate din Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, and the Guianas.

*Many legends have been crated around the Amazon River, for example, the one that the native created saying that if somebody unknown comes to the river and damages it, this unknown person will never find the way out of the jungle and will vague for the eternity.

*People believe that all the shapes and figures all around the South American continent show the outrageous knowledge that the first civilizations in the history, the predominant race, had during their life period.

QUESTIONS:

*What kind of export is taken from the Amazon River?

*What type of process was used by the natives to fish?

*Are some of the legend in the Amazon River true?

*Why if they were the first civilization, they did not develop the same skills as the Europeans?

VOCABULARY:

*solstice: either one of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun year about June 22 and December 22.

*impending: to hover threateningly.

*misconceptions: intentional wrongdoing.

LITARARY TREMS:

*Script Style: in this last chapters, there is a page between some of the pictures that shows some hieroglyphics supposedly designed by the natives a long time ago.

*Historical Event: besides, in the pictures the routes that the conquerors took to com to the Americas, but specially the routes taken to South America.

SUMMARY:

Throughout the whole story of this book, we have learned that the Native Americans located in the South American Continent were the first civilization in the whole world because of the proves that the “experts” have found during many years. They say that these societies are or were almost 8000 to 10000 older than any other society in the world. In this South American civilizations we can also see the great knowledge they had in their constructions and technology advances, however these groups even though they were older they could not beat the skills of other societies around the world.