Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Real History: Lost Civilisations of the Amazon

More evidence for low density tropical urbanism. Similar to what the Maya might have lived like and what might have also existed in Southeast Asia in the past. Either in ancient Thailand and Cambodia or Sundaland.

It seems that the civilisations that existed in these jungles and tropical savannahs could thrive because they were tending the environment like a garden similarly to how forests in Europe were not completely wild, rather a resource that was actively being shaped and managed.