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May 5, 1000
Invasion of the Amazon Jungle
"Into the Amazon" -Information from lonelyplanet and eoearth -picture from sidepoint -
Period: May 5, 1000 to May 5, 1541
A mystery
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Jan 5, 1541
The arrival of the first explorer
European explorers from the west first arrived to the Amazon before the spanish in 1541 and before that who knows who inhabited the amazon. It could have been stone age people. -picture from heightstechnology. -
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Greedy invade
17th ~ 18th century -
Greed of outsiders
Between the 17th and 18th century the Portuguese adventurers started to push farther and farther into the amazon jungle. Their objective was to make the Indian people of the Amazon jungle slaves and findin gold in the jungle. picture from fineartamerica -
Exploxitation of the Amazon jungle for rubber,
During this time American Charles Goodyear used the Amazon jungle for developing rubber. Goodyear, a popular tire brand which may be familiar to us now. The manufacturing of rubber was a monoploy during this time. More rubber = more money. -picture from rainforest-alliance. -
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Improvment
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The increase of the rate of deforesation.
By this time we see the Amazon jungle disappear at a rate of a football field a minute. The rate of deforestation is at an insanely fast pace. The rate of deforesation has only inscreaed since then. -
Land for the Indians
In the 1990's Amazon forests has been marked so people could differenrated between the Amazonion Indian territory and what is open forest area. Which protects their homes and prevents more deforestation. -
The Present
Today, we are more knkowledgeable and informed on our mistakes in the Amazon jungle. We know more of our harmful actions. There has been many more laws and restrictions implemented. We are constantly putting efforts in reducing our deforestation rates and saving the Amazon forest from its death.
