Aztlan's Historical Dictionary: Amazons (Sub. Español)

For centuries explorers, conquistadores and soldiers of fortune projected their dreams, nightmares and fantasies onto the New World, inhabiting it with giants, natives with faces in their chests and all sorts of fantastical creatures and entities from ancient lore. Today we are going to talk about some of the most common and fascinating characters from ancient lore that made it to the Americas during the Age of Exploration; The Amazons. To learn more: On the personification of the New World as an Amazon https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.ph... (in Spanish) "Descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas" (Discovery of the River of the Amazons) by Gaspar de Carvajal http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-... (in Spanish) Don't forget to visit my DeviantArt page! https://www.deviantart.com/aztlanhist... and my Discord forum   / discord   DISCLAIMER: All materials used on this video belong to their respective creators. This video was made for educative purposes only