NunyaBidness on Nostr: Networking the Amazon The difficulty in finding the "gleaming cities" Orellana spoke ...
Networking the Amazon
The difficulty in finding the "gleaming cities" Orellana spoke of in the 1500's wasn't just about the jungle engulfing them. It was that the cities were not mounds, temples, or spires reaching up to celebrate the desire the people had to commune with the gods. These cities were horizontal demonstrating the desire to commune with each other.
Plazas and marketplaces denotes the desire to convive and do business with one another. The ports and wide causeways laced throughout the region connected the cities and that speaks of a grand desire to network with the far away. The roads and ports, rivers and canals formed networks for goods, services and information.
The difficulty in finding the "gleaming cities" Orellana spoke of in the 1500's wasn't just about the jungle engulfing them. It was that the cities were not mounds, temples, or spires reaching up to celebrate the desire the people had to commune with the gods. These cities were horizontal demonstrating the desire to commune with each other.
Plazas and marketplaces denotes the desire to convive and do business with one another. The ports and wide causeways laced throughout the region connected the cities and that speaks of a grand desire to network with the far away. The roads and ports, rivers and canals formed networks for goods, services and information.