This lecture highlights how the arrival of Europeans, especially Portuguese and Spanish, led to violence, diseases, religious domination, enslavement, dispossession, and ultimately to a demographic decline that contributed to the myth of the Amazonian emptiness. Discover the economic and religious systems used to justify European colonization and the key role of Amazonian commodities in global markets and industrialization. 

Lecture source language: English

Available subtitles & translations: Portuguese and Spanish