I was born in Belém (Brazil) in the outskirts of the Amazon, lived there until I was about 12, before moving to Portugal. I thought it was as completely normal to have rain for every 2 days except in droughts and everyday in the rainy season. When I got to Portugal I was so surprised that you could go a entire month without a single waterdrop, I genuinely questioned how could any plant grow on that environment, and assumed I was living in a extension of the Sahara. Until I got a geography class and learned that I was living in one of the most extreme zones of precipitation on earth.
my thought exactly bt the problem with the congo is that the rebels in the drc control large swaths of land there so the congo is basically impossible to study , and doing a story about the place will be based on alot of inaccurate stories ......... bt it would be amazing to learn about the congo since im in africa and i barely knw anything about it
Here in Bolivia, historians knew about the "hydraulic cultures of Moxos", called that because they built very complex acuatic infrastructures to drain the surrounding area of the settlements during the heavy floods. We knew they were a complex civilization of Arawak origin who built realtively big settlements in artificial hills to avoid said floods. The common hypothesis of their dissapearance is that they were conquered and assymilated by the Chiriguano-Guaranies who came from the south around the 15th century. But the 2022 discovery is the first time we had a setlement discovered of that monumental scale, and i hope there will be more discoveries and investigations to get a clear view of this culture.
The Amazon....The Earth's lungs...Yea no turns out that's not true The Amazon! Nature's wonder....Yea no turns out man made the hell out of it lol People are so smart but SOOOO very good at being wrong lol
That's similar to what I've learned back in high school too... as a normal European living in Europe (of course, in much less detail). I was surprised to see RealLifeLore claim that the "consensus" was that no such civilizations existed.
in this case it felt justified. Reallifelore oftentimes stretches videos, but in this case it all felt quite relevant, since it is interesting and important that the early "kooky" European explorers may have actually been right!
@@Watchyn_Yarwood 1. He may live in North Korea and have been forced to watch it. 2. He may not have known he didn't want to watch it until he'd watched it. 3. He may has an unusually high curiosity about what is under trees. 4. He may be doing a thesis on undergrowth that has to be completed by Monday so every minute counts. 5. He may be very intollerant to inaccuracies in youtube video titles and also have a compulsive urge to share that with the world. I have other theories, but my thesis on youtube comments is due. 😃
As an Brazilian, it's always a pleasure to see our country being mentioned or talked about in your videos. Thanks for one of your best videos in recent time
I mean no offense but brazil is also always mentioned when discussed about high crime rate, terrible quality of life and very undeveloped nation. Wouldnt be to proud on that though.
The resources you are so hellbent about, once they are done and over with, it's over, they are irreplaceable, unrenewable.The forest, if untouched or very carefully used,will protect the country and the rest of the 🌎 forever. The indigenous are not meant to be slaves nor are they pests that get in the way..Should a large scale disaster occur, we will need their help far more than they ever needed ours
@@georgecyp.4581what are you saying lol, barely any common citizen wants to destroy the amazon or kill the natives like that, it's only the large mining and agriculture corporations, illegal miners, loggers and poachers, and those filthy europeans and americans that infiltrate the amazon under the guise of NGOs to extract resources that think that way
Brazilian from the north east here( the dryer part of Brazil), Manaus is actually the center of production of most big international tech companies, Samsung, Sony and even Microsoft have factories in that city. Both my PS4 and galaxy book 2 were made in that city. And it's a big city like any other, has tall buildings , heavy traffic and things all other Brazilian capitals have
You just forgot to mention that these electronics come in parts and are merely assembled in Manaus for tax reasons, then we pay huge transport fees to get these electronics in and out of the Amazon. I have many friends in Manaus but my god, the city is just proped up by plain old protectionism.
*Please dear RLL team…continue making MORE of these long-form Geography & History videos too going ahead (I like your GeoPolitics series too…but want to see you cover more subjects like in the pre-2020 days)!*
A quick lesson of Portuguese phonetics: In Portuguese, unlike in English, the emphasis on the words tends to be on last part of the word, not in the beggining, as it commonly is in English. So for example, Real Life Lore pronounces it XINgu, with emphasis on the Xin, but its actually pronounced XinGU, with emphasis on the Gu. This is also where the common brazilian accent in english comes from: less english proficient brazilian instinctively put emphasis on the last syllable of words. The word Hospital, for example, is written the same in both languages. But in english its pronounced HOSpital, whereas in portuguese, it´s HospiTAL.
Ya know, most other animals would consider the Amazon Rainforest to be the most large and densely populated city filled with more life than any other place on this planet. They would probably consider that there are many ways to transport themselves through the area, whether it's through river or tree top, with easy food access. It's so fun to see you talk about how remote and isolated these places are for us when they are brimming with life.
Lots of food but also lots of predators... There are easier biomes to live in. Like prairies for prairie dogs. Animals in the rainforest are built different - just like the ones in Africa.
@@yifanruan192 could say the same about human cities. Jobs are abundant in the cities, but the rich(predators) have an easier time surviving in the city than the rest, but we still manage because of the abundance of resources in the area, plenty more violence in the cities too. The analogy still works 🤣
The only way I could do that was if you wanted me me to come and pick pick up your stuff at at your place or something like a place that I could get get get you a little something for the car wash or whatever I could do to to make sure sure you don’t get a car washed out we w😮wosr
Absolutely 1 of your best videos. I've been waiting on a video on this subject done by someone that I don't get bored of listening to. Thanks brother love watching your work.
I'm from Guayana City, Venezuela 🇻🇪 and people that migrate to Brazil by road have to take Brazilian Highway 174 all the way to Manaus then fly to whatever city in Brazil they're going to work in.
I read about some of this in the book "1491" that was published about 15 or 20 years ago -- obviously not the more recent discoveries, but the things like the manufactured black soil, areas that were discovered to be cultivated orchards of food-bearing fruits, some of the "interconnected villages" and their spohisticated road networks connecting them -- stuff like that. The newer discoveries highlighted in this video are just as, if not more, fascinating.
I appreciate that you mentioned Peru’s relationship to the amazon several times and showed images of sites like Machu Picchu and Saqsaywaman. Places I actually visited earlier this year. I’d love to see a more in-depth video about Peru’s history and modern geopolitical importance in the same manner as many of your other videos.
thank you so much including sources. i know you got a lot of comments on it in the past but it makes these videos so much better, even with the small notes in the corners
The indigenous tribes “deeply fear what the outside world would do to them if they were found”. Very wise indeed. Over the past 2500 years, the population of indigenous tribes has gone from up to 6M to just over 100,000
Right... but the majority of that is due to assimilation into the developed world and not warfare. You state that figure as if they all are casualties or something.
@@JuanMendoza-qd5lm I didn’t say that the 6 million disappeared as casualties presumably from Europeans if I get your suggestion correct. 80% of them died off long before the Europeans got to the Americas.
@@colingenge9999 Gotcha👍. I know you didn't say that specifically, I just thought you may have been implying it within the context of them being in fear of danger. So it honestly sounds like that's exactly how you meant it but I will take your word for it. It's probably just due to how many times statistics are used in ways they weren't meant to be nowadays.
@@alt1f4 Some cultures hadn't even developed the Wheel yet bud. So, Yes... 1500s Europe was highly developed in comparison. You don't seem to have any true perspective on the interactions of these cultures and your 2nd statement proves that. It's indisputable that of course violent interactions have led to the deaths and enslavement of tribal people in the past. But characterizing the entirety of tribal interactions as you just did is a sure sign you have no insight on the matter and are merely injecting your Woke Revisionist History into the time period.
Colonel Fawcett: I was right! I told you those natives built vast cities and you told me they were just primitive savages. Modern academics: Shut up you Colonial far-Right Nazi!
For 32 minutes, this is me: LIDAR. It's LIDAR. Where's the LIDAR? When's he going to say LIDAR? Finally, he said LIDAR. 32:43 is where the new info starts.
I bought a few board feet of Jatoba, a Brazilian cherry tree, to reinforce my flatbed trailer deck. It's stronger than oak and has a nice reddish hue. Maybe it came from a rain forest. Is that wrong or bad? It was on sale. The salesmen said it was on closeout because no one buys it because it's so hard to work with. He even told me I couldn't cut it to size myself, a skill saw wouldn't be able to do it. I'd have a hard time and go through several blades, maybe burn out the saw altogether. But they could cut it and mill it to size for me for $25, which they did. I had to drill into it to attach it to the deck and I was surprised at how resistant it was to drilling. Drilling into the surrounding pine deck boards was a joke by comparison. It was expensive, about $300 for 24 linear board feet. I'm glad to have it, my deck shouldn't be so fragile anymore.
People professionally farm all these types of trees and there are generally protections to make it hard to import illegally harvested tropical hardwoods into countries like the US. So your board probably came from a tree plantation
@@alexdunphy3716 Protections against illegal imports are only worth what the current governments, logging corporations and importers have agreed on, it's a shady business.
Sounds like IPE, that stuff burns out blades too and is South American sourced. Not supposed to breathe the dust from it either as it really irritates the lungs .
In my opinion, your most interesting production to date. I can only try to imagine the research and preparation you invest in each of your productions! Thank you for sharing with all of us!
I just want to acknowledge the immense amount of research you put into every video while also releasing them frequently. It's almost impossible for any normal person to consistently upload high quality content. Great work man!
@@bandolierboy1908and its a good thing they can hide in trees and make traps. look at the vietname war, we both had guns, but its the fact they knew the territory more that mattered even though no one thinks of it.
The sad reality is logging and deforestation will continue to persist in the future. And in a couple decades or centuries, the Amazon rainforest would be nothing but farmlands with a few patches of jungle here and there. And all these undiscovered archaeological sites will be destroyed in the process
look at the bright side, apparently if the Amazon deforestation reaches about 19% to 25% of it's total area, researchers aren't sure, the forest reaches a point of no return and starts decaying by itself, and fun fact the rain for pretty much the whole of Brazil except coast areas comes directly from the Amazon, so not only the forest are expect to become a desert but so is the rest of the country due to draughts, which would make the overwhelming majority of Brazilian land unfit for agriculture.
You imbeciles act like there has never been any civilization in the so called pristine rainforest. Yet there have been several, most of which were lost due to the regrowth of said rainforest over the last centuries.
YOU SHOULD MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHATS UNDER THE SAHARA DESERT!!!! I’ve always been super curious about that and this is exactly the sort of research I’ve wanted to see on that topic. 10/10 video and a new subscriber here!
this was fascinating, the amazon sounds like a truly magical place, it is nice to know places like this still exist and its fun to think about what might be going on in there that we have no idea about.
The discussion about the advancement of the Sahara's southern edge implied to me that the climate of the area between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer in both continents probably underwent some major shifts over the centuries that influenced changes in flora and water availability. I'm remembering that the historical record across Central America implies some major climate shift between 1000 and 1300 AD, and if that shift impacted areas south of there as well, it could have forced the degradation of civilizations in the area.
My theory is animal husbandry, specifically the domestication of the goat, sheep, and cattle, that led to the desertification of many regions in the Sahara and Middle East. The hypothesis formed when I was watching a documentary about the Jordanians establishing a nature preserve in a region with little flora, due to being over grazed by local goat herders. After fencing the land off from such uses, the plants were able to return, and eventually a forest started to regrow. Apparently goats would eat all the plants, exposing the soil, rain would fall and the top soil would erode, thus inhibiting the growth of new plants. I thought it was a fascinating documentary that showed how humanity effects the environment.
You know, it never occurred to me until now that turning Sahara green would affect the amount sand and fertilizer Amazon receives. That can't be good 🤔
@@byurBUDdyI mean the Epic of Gilgamesh does talk of Great Forests. They got destroyed for logging and such during the Bronze Age so it’s not unlikely people destroyed other environments there as well
That did happen. Around that time, there was a migration of peoples northward. North America was very sparsely populated at this time, so the southern peoples had space to settle. That said, there was still conflict. The southerners arrived with strange philosophies, gods, and languages. North American native tribes still have stories about this time, from both perspectives. By the time Europeans began their westward expansion, the political situation between the native nations had only recently calmed down, following centuries of gradual mingling of the new peoples and the old. On an unrelated note: The desertification of northern Africa is, at least in part, the result of human environmental impact. And that, in turn, created the Amazon rainforest. The earliest domesticated husbandry animals saw a population explosion due to human care, and were protected as they moved with nomadic humans across grasslands not equipped to handle the large influx of herbivores. And as the desert overtook the grasslands, more dust was carried from it across the Atlantic. This, in turn, delivered more and more nutrients to the South American biosphere, causing vast swathes of savannahs to be overtaken by ever-denser jungle. It was a catastrophic environmental disaster. And it occurred before humans had even crossed out of Eurasia. We destroyed the environment of half a continent without even setting foot on it. With sticks and goats.😮
Thanks for sharing this incredible documentary. The amount of research that was done to create this video is quite impressive. I've always known that there were "uncontacted" tribes in South America since i began watching national geographic and PBS special's in the early 80's, but had no idea how extensive their populations/ranges were, or if they even still existed. The most recent uncontacted people im familiar with are the Sentinelese who REALLY dont like to be contacted unless under very specific conditions are met.
For me, the best thing about LIDAR is how non-invasive it is. Like, all these discoveries were made without having to dig all of it up.. who are we to dig up the territories of long passed peoples? Let them rest.
OK Buddy listen up Your cadence and efficiency in speaking is so on point that your channel is the only one where I have to switch the playback speed back to normal. Idk how you do it but the way in which you narrate makes it so effortless to follow along
@@kosmique sou brasileiro ... existe um líder indígena aqui no Brasil, escritor e pensador, da tribo Krenak, chamado Ailton Krenak ele fala sobre isso, ele quando viu os funcionários da FUNAI (Agencia Nacional de Proteção e Cuidado dos Nativos Americanos) ele acreditava que era uma tribo, com tecnologia que vinha visitar ele, mas que tinha o mesmo tamanho aproximado da tribo dele. ... quando ele voo de avião e viu uma cidade do céus e percebeu que a tribo dele não era nada perto de uma cidade, ele teve a sensação de pequenez e fraqueza da tribo dele, uma sensação que ele descreveu como quebrar a coluna vertebral, pois tudo que ele tinha como convicção e certeza se quebrou. Dai ele entendeu a necessidade de proteger a tribos indígenas, por ser esse estilo de vida de coletor caçador, seminômade algo em extinção.
Um adendo, para eles bens materiais não significa riqueza, mas comida, sim é riqueza, e quando ele viu pessoas na rua passando fome e em outros lugares pessoas desperdiçando comida ele achou isso uma loucura e chamou a nossa sociedade de tribo doente e disfuncional. Ele foi levado a muitos lugares e mostrado a eles muitas " riquezas ", mas ele só ficou boquiaberto mesmo, quando viu a quantidade de comida que tinha no Mercado Municipal de São Paulo, para ele aquilo era riqueza de verdade.
There should be a correction at 1:19. Manaus is not the most heavily isolated city in the Western Hemisphere with over a million people. That title belongs to either Honolulu, Hawaii, which has a metro population of just over 1 million.
The Upano valley discovery is absolutely fascinating! I never heard about it before. Who knows, maybe other civilizations were lost in time too, just because they didn't use much stone, pottery or metal.
I still argue Gobekli Tepe is bigger, in that it rewrites the history of civilization as a concept. Not to diminish the significance of the Amazon finds, but if modern academics didn’t dismiss historic accounts out of hand, it wouldn’t have surprised anyone.
I really want real life lore to make more of these videos as I miss the videos he used to upload such as how deep is the ocean or what will happen by 2050 I don’t know if he will ever upload these old videos along with the modern conflict series.
I truly wish we could time travel only for science's sake and learning how people lived and how their cultures and histories evolved. The stories we could learn are unimaginable. And I'm all in for anything that can humble our bloated egos and regain a sense of common humanity and community.
Alaska has the largest rainforest in the world, I don’t know why I’m saying this because I love how unpopulated it is here. Thank goodness most can’t handle 8 months of winter.
I'm a Brazilian and never went to the Amazon Rain Forest. The city I live is thousands of kilometers away from it. Many things I hear from the Amazon Rainforest is as surprising to me as it is to ppl from other countries.
Thank you for your unique and amazing content on topics that are stimulating and informative.... I find that this keeps bringing me back due to the quality and historically significant and compelling information.
Great job on this video. I feel like I’ve watched all your stuff. This may have been the best one you’ve done very professional and laid out with evidence.
I'm aware of all this information but the way you framed it as the last standing evidence of a post apocalypse society adds proper weight and value to these discoveries. I find this line of thinking both provocative and enlightening. Well done sir. 👍
It's a good thing there are few roads. The deforestation happens aside the roads that do exist. More roads will bring in more agriculture and logging into areas of largely untouched expanse. Agriculture is exacerbated in that there's only a few seasons of crops before more have to be cut away due to the poor soil quality.
The Amazon Rainforest is genuinely fascinating, in my opinion. I believe that there was once an advanced civilisation in the Amazon Rainforest deep in antiquity.
@@WB-se6nz This whole video is about the wonders of what actual science has discovered, and you want to live in a fantasy world made up by some charlatan selling books.
I’ve pretty much always assumed that there’s tons of stuff hidden in the Amazon rainforest, and science has now proven me right 😊 Also, thank you so much for putting your sponsorship at the END of the video!❤
@@Inyourbox-kr5uf You watched a 49 minute video in 4 minutes? Why lie about something so easily disproven? Are you that desperate for attention? That's so sad
Ya no sht. Good to know where your heads at though which begs me to ask the question... Did you remember to put pants on today or just stare at them untill someone had to come remind you you're late for school? *^I would have said work instead of school but I wouldn't believe you have a job even if you told me you did*😂
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If you're interested in learning more about lake mega Chad the channel miniminuteman's has a video titled ghosts of the green sahara that goes over the formation, ancient ppl and eventual shrinkage of lake mega Chad, as well as the desertification of the Sahara.
I was born in Belém (Brazil) in the outskirts of the Amazon, lived there until I was about 12, before moving to Portugal. I thought it was as completely normal to have rain for every 2 days except in droughts and everyday in the rainy season.
When I got to Portugal I was so surprised that you could go a entire month without a single waterdrop, I genuinely questioned how could any plant grow on that environment, and assumed I was living in a extension of the Sahara.
Until I got a geography class and learned that I was living in one of the most extreme zones of precipitation on earth.
So you had iguanas as pets
@@gasmaskz Ye dude, we had a couple as pets. We also hunted fish with spears and lived on huts just like our ancestors. LOL
@@hostedbysimples5416Careful! Animal rights activists are gonna call you a monster ^^
- Adûnâi
That's no nice to hear
Close to culture and traditions.
Stay blessed@@hostedbysimples5416
gala-seca
Lake megachad is crazy
Named after myself!!!
@@gasmaskzactually it’s named after me sorry
if it were any bigger at some point, it'd be Lake Gigachad
Wait until you hear about Lake Giga Chad.
That's an actual name? 😂😂😂
You should do one of these on the Congo. It gets overshadowed by the Amazon but it's just as fascinating and unexplored.
Alot more people live in the Congo tho.
my thought exactly bt the problem with the congo is that the rebels in the drc control large swaths of land there so the congo is basically impossible to study , and doing a story about the place will be based on alot of inaccurate stories ......... bt it would be amazing to learn about the congo since im in africa and i barely knw anything about it
Right? I wanna see some flora and Fauna, maybe some big snakes or big creatures? Would be an awesome documentary to show.
Not any more. The Congo will be stripped of every ounce of minerals.
@@apexmaish22
David van Reybrouck wrote a great book about Congo, I highly recommend it.
Here in Bolivia, historians knew about the "hydraulic cultures of Moxos", called that because they built very complex acuatic infrastructures to drain the surrounding area of the settlements during the heavy floods. We knew they were a complex civilization of Arawak origin who built realtively big settlements in artificial hills to avoid said floods. The common hypothesis of their dissapearance is that they were conquered and assymilated by the Chiriguano-Guaranies who came from the south around the 15th century. But the 2022 discovery is the first time we had a setlement discovered of that monumental scale, and i hope there will be more discoveries and investigations to get a clear view of this culture.
The Amazon....The Earth's lungs...Yea no turns out that's not true
The Amazon! Nature's wonder....Yea no turns out man made the hell out of it lol
People are so smart but SOOOO very good at being wrong lol
Seein your comment makes me think you like geography, Our channel is exactly about that, maybe you would like to check it out. Grande, viva Bolivia!❤
That's similar to what I've learned back in high school too... as a normal European living in Europe (of course, in much less detail). I was surprised to see RealLifeLore claim that the "consensus" was that no such civilizations existed.
Me: "what's under the trees?"
Reallifelore: "before I explain, I must first tell you the entire history of the world"
Thumbnail clickbait as always 😅
The Yuval Harari of maps 😂
in this case it felt justified. Reallifelore oftentimes stretches videos, but in this case it all felt quite relevant, since it is interesting and important that the early "kooky" European explorers may have actually been right!
No one forced you to watch his videos so if you don't like it, don't watch it.
@@Watchyn_Yarwood 1. He may live in North Korea and have been forced to watch it. 2. He may not have known he didn't want to watch it until he'd watched it. 3. He may has an unusually high curiosity about what is under trees. 4. He may be doing a thesis on undergrowth that has to be completed by Monday so every minute counts. 5. He may be very intollerant to inaccuracies in youtube video titles and also have a compulsive urge to share that with the world. I have other theories, but my thesis on youtube comments is due. 😃
What's hidden in the Amazon rainforest? Me! I live in Manaus lmao
What is it like to live there???
How often do you travel out??
"Do you know who's hidden in the Amazon rainforest?"
"Well, of course I know him, he's me"
Pls explain what it’s like to live there
We beg you
video: Lake Mega Chad
me: wut?
video: fertilizes from across an ocean
me: name checks out
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Lmaoooo
😂😂
Bruhhy
Just become a comedy writer because this is GOLD!!! 😂😂
So... Brazilian here. Born, raised and living on Manaus. Hi, lads
Hi
Cap 🧢
How is your life there? I can only imagine being born at such a fascinating place
Well it looks like I’m about to spend the next four hours in the Amazon rainforest on Google Street View
Keep it stiff lad
As an Brazilian, it's always a pleasure to see our country being mentioned or talked about in your videos. Thanks for one of your best videos in recent time
I mean no offense but brazil is also always mentioned when discussed about high crime rate, terrible quality of life and very undeveloped nation. Wouldnt be to proud on that though.
The resources you are so hellbent about, once they are done and over with, it's over, they are irreplaceable, unrenewable.The forest, if untouched or very carefully used,will protect the country and the rest of the 🌎 forever. The indigenous are not meant to be slaves nor are they pests that get in the way..Should a large scale disaster occur, we will need their help far more than they ever needed ours
@@georgecyp.4581what are you saying lol, barely any common citizen wants to destroy the amazon or kill the natives like that, it's only the large mining and agriculture corporations, illegal miners, loggers and poachers, and those filthy europeans and americans that infiltrate the amazon under the guise of NGOs to extract resources that think that way
@@georgecyp.4581 EU ACABEI DE ENTREGAR TEU IP PARA AS FORCAS ARMADAS DO BRASIL AGORA. VOCÊ ESTÁ SENDO RASTREADO PELO GOVERNO DO BRASIL AGORA.
@@georgecyp.4581wtf lol who u talking to dude just said he liked the video lol u weird ASL
Brazilian from the north east here( the dryer part of Brazil), Manaus is actually the center of production of most big international tech companies, Samsung, Sony and even Microsoft have factories in that city. Both my PS4 and galaxy book 2 were made in that city. And it's a big city like any other, has tall buildings , heavy traffic and things all other Brazilian capitals have
You just forgot to mention that these electronics come in parts and are merely assembled in Manaus for tax reasons, then we pay huge transport fees to get these electronics in and out of the Amazon. I have many friends in Manaus but my god, the city is just proped up by plain old protectionism.
I never thought I'd see the day that we'd get a RealLifeLore video that doesn't mention the Bab El-Mandeb Strait
and i thought i was the only one who always hears bab el-mandeb strait🤣🤣
Just wait, he'll edit the video name and content in a day or two and guess what... B A B
😂😂😂
I'll have another drink.
Impossible
*Please dear RLL team…continue making MORE of these long-form Geography & History videos too going ahead (I like your GeoPolitics series too…but want to see you cover more subjects like in the pre-2020 days)!*
Same I enjoy both 😊
🤣🤣
Agreed
Virgin Amazon soil vs lake Mega Chad
A global rizz
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by ~liquid inserting directly his nutrients jezzzz
😂😂😂
Here to fertilize her soils
A quick lesson of Portuguese phonetics:
In Portuguese, unlike in English, the emphasis on the words tends to be on last part of the word, not in the beggining, as it commonly is in English.
So for example, Real Life Lore pronounces it XINgu, with emphasis on the Xin, but its actually pronounced XinGU, with emphasis on the Gu.
This is also where the common brazilian accent in english comes from: less english proficient brazilian instinctively put emphasis on the last syllable of words.
The word Hospital, for example, is written the same in both languages.
But in english its pronounced HOSpital, whereas in portuguese, it´s HospiTAL.
I appreciated this
@@alitabaker99i dont
@@AlexanderStrang-l7kBut nobody cares.
Portuguese is like French in that way.
No they say " Hospitão / hospitaow
I'm not saying it's a bad thing I find it a cute way to say it
Ya know, most other animals would consider the Amazon Rainforest to be the most large and densely populated city filled with more life than any other place on this planet. They would probably consider that there are many ways to transport themselves through the area, whether it's through river or tree top, with easy food access. It's so fun to see you talk about how remote and isolated these places are for us when they are brimming with life.
What?
Awesome take
I never really thought of that I mean that’s what we should be thinking of not worried about taking other animals and people’s land
Lots of food but also lots of predators... There are easier biomes to live in. Like prairies for prairie dogs. Animals in the rainforest are built different - just like the ones in Africa.
@@yifanruan192 could say the same about human cities. Jobs are abundant in the cities, but the rich(predators) have an easier time surviving in the city than the rest, but we still manage because of the abundance of resources in the area, plenty more violence in the cities too. The analogy still works 🤣
Disappointed that you did not credit the most famous of explorers, Dora.
May Hanuman be upon her as she journeys to the West.
it was Diego that lived in the Amazon
Doesn't she mostly explore Central America though?
@alexv3357 she be exploring tho.. like fr fr exploring.. you know, like walking and sh** through all of it .
The only way I could do that was if you wanted me me to come and pick pick up your stuff at at your place or something like a place that I could get get get you a little something for the car wash or whatever I could do to to make sure sure you don’t get a car washed out we w😮wosr
8:56 Lake Megachad ah yes my favorite lake
Im more of a Lake Titicaca kind of guy myself. But to each there own.
@@mikecook6553 LMAO
@@mikecook6553 Me too, especially since Lake Titicaca still exists.
Lmfao I died
Waiting for them to find a bigger ancient lake named "lake gigachad."
Absolutely 1 of your best videos. I've been waiting on a video on this subject done by someone that I don't get bored of listening to. Thanks brother love watching your work.
Crazy that youtube Demonetized this video on you… I’m only 1/2 through and have been blow away at least 4 times.. great research
What could be the reason?
Same
@@marcop.525 "adult themes and s* xual content" which makes no sense because there is literally no s*x in the video at all
@@marcop.525 when they demonotize a video, they get to keep all the money, so the answer is probably money
@@nayber2352 They don't get any money either, since no ads are shown.
Plants in regular forests:
Savings, 401K, benefits
Plants in the Amazon:
Paycheck to paycheck
I'm from Guayana City, Venezuela 🇻🇪 and people that migrate to Brazil by road have to take Brazilian Highway 174 all the way to Manaus then fly to whatever city in Brazil they're going to work in.
I read about some of this in the book "1491" that was published about 15 or 20 years ago -- obviously not the more recent discoveries, but the things like the manufactured black soil, areas that were discovered to be cultivated orchards of food-bearing fruits, some of the "interconnected villages" and their spohisticated road networks connecting them -- stuff like that. The newer discoveries highlighted in this video are just as, if not more, fascinating.
The 'terra preta' (black soil) discovery was stunning. Not just an anthropological discovery, but one with lessons we can use today.
@@bimblinghill Indeed. Look at all that locked Carbon. It isn't going anywhere.
The followup book, 1493, is very interesting as well
@@clw132 It is indeed, especially the section on fiat currency collapse in China leading to the high demand for South American silver in the 1500's
That was a great couple books. I loved The Dawn of Everything as well. Didn't focus as much on S. America, but still awesome.
I appreciate that you mentioned Peru’s relationship to the amazon several times and showed images of sites like Machu Picchu and Saqsaywaman. Places I actually visited earlier this year. I’d love to see a more in-depth video about Peru’s history and modern geopolitical importance in the same manner as many of your other videos.
Also, it’s the adopted home of Kamen Rider Amazon, who otherwise was born in Japan but was orphaned following a plane crash in Peru as a baby boy.
I can’t imagine the excitement when the team viewed the initial maps from the LIDAR. I bet everyone in the room went nuts
Poland briefly mentioned, now I'm hooked.
thank you so much including sources. i know you got a lot of comments on it in the past but it makes these videos so much better, even with the small notes in the corners
8:57 lake megachad 🤔
Paused the video at 9m and came to the comments to see this
Brazil but with brainrot
@@lucisano i'm here in the comments before watching the video. i can't wait
@@lucisanoliterally same. Paused to look at comments.
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For anyone interested, the monster isn't "mopen gúrai" it's "mapinguarí"
AI voice
First time I've heard of the mapinguari was while camping in the forest...the night noises made the story feel quite real
POV : who cares
@@frustationoverloaded5976 Anyone interested duh
@@frustationoverloaded5976 ..everyone who clicked on this video to learn something?
The indigenous tribes “deeply fear what the outside world would do to them if they were found”. Very wise indeed.
Over the past 2500 years, the population of indigenous tribes has gone from up to 6M to just over 100,000
Right... but the majority of that is due to assimilation into the developed world and not warfare.
You state that figure as if they all are casualties or something.
@@JuanMendoza-qd5lmso you're calling 15 hundreds europe developed?😂😂😂 Also the only ones who integrated where the ones who werent enslaved or killed
@@JuanMendoza-qd5lm I didn’t say that the 6 million disappeared as casualties presumably from Europeans if I get your suggestion correct. 80% of them died off long before the Europeans got to the Americas.
@@colingenge9999 Gotcha👍.
I know you didn't say that specifically, I just thought you may have been implying it within the context of them being in fear of danger. So it honestly sounds like that's exactly how you meant it but I will take your word for it.
It's probably just due to how many times statistics are used in ways they weren't meant to be nowadays.
@@alt1f4 Some cultures hadn't even developed the Wheel yet bud. So, Yes... 1500s Europe was highly developed in comparison.
You don't seem to have any true perspective on the interactions of these cultures and your 2nd statement proves that.
It's indisputable that of course violent interactions have led to the deaths and enslavement of tribal people in the past. But characterizing the entirety of tribal interactions as you just did is a sure sign you have no insight on the matter and are merely injecting your Woke Revisionist History into the time period.
One of your best videos yet. I’m totally captivated by all of this!
Modern academics: There is no way
Ancient people: Yes way
Yes
Colonel Fawcett: I was right! I told you those natives built vast cities and you told me they were just primitive savages.
Modern academics: Shut up you Colonial far-Right Nazi!
For what?
..wow... Found another pyramid 😅🔼
One of your most interesting uploads of this year, genuinely
If wooly mammoths were yummy and easy to kill I don't think I giant sloth stood a chance unless it tasted really nasty.
True
Have you seen giant sloth claws? And oh they were relatives of armadillos and had bone armor UNDER THEIR SKIN
Easy? Who the hell thinks they were easy to kill. Did you miss the tusks
@@janelleg597 Atlatls
@@AstroBear11 lol what
For 32 minutes, this is me: LIDAR. It's LIDAR. Where's the LIDAR? When's he going to say LIDAR? Finally, he said LIDAR. 32:43 is where the new info starts.
Lidar has been around since the early 2000s at least. Obviously it is better now but I remember watching a time team episode when they used it.
U r so smart
He mentioned Lidar scanning at 6:40.
@@iceetmarne3571 You're not wrong. No idea why RLL is presenting it as "new exciting tech!"
Thanks
This channel is so awesome. I have learned a ton if stuff from around the world. I'm 68 and love learning.
Reallifelore’s passion really showing with this one
I bought a few board feet of Jatoba, a Brazilian cherry tree, to reinforce my flatbed trailer deck.
It's stronger than oak and has a nice reddish hue.
Maybe it came from a rain forest.
Is that wrong or bad? It was on sale. The salesmen said it was on closeout because no one buys it because it's so hard to work with.
He even told me I couldn't cut it to size myself, a skill saw wouldn't be able to do it.
I'd have a hard time and go through several blades, maybe burn out the saw altogether.
But they could cut it and mill it to size for me for $25, which they did.
I had to drill into it to attach it to the deck and I was surprised at how resistant it was to drilling. Drilling into the surrounding pine deck boards was a joke by comparison.
It was expensive, about $300 for 24 linear board feet. I'm glad to have it, my deck shouldn't be so fragile anymore.
People professionally farm all these types of trees and there are generally protections to make it hard to import illegally harvested tropical hardwoods into countries like the US. So your board probably came from a tree plantation
@@alexdunphy3716 Protections against illegal imports are only worth what the current governments, logging corporations and importers have agreed on, it's a shady business.
Sounds like IPE, that stuff burns out blades too and is South American sourced. Not supposed to breathe the dust from it either as it really irritates the lungs .
A lot of Saharan sand, apparently.
In my opinion, your most interesting production to date. I can only try to imagine the research and preparation you invest in each of your productions! Thank you for sharing with all of us!
I just want to acknowledge the immense amount of research you put into every video while also releasing them frequently. It's almost impossible for any normal person to consistently upload high quality content. Great work man!
2:04 giggity
Giggity giggity reference
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Giggity goo
@nukkinfigureσ-σ
turns out i wasn't born too late to larp as an explorer
Find the tribes that will kill you?
@@idon.t2156yeah like TRUE early 1900s adventure stories
@@idon.t2156good thing we have guns
@@bandolierboy1908and its a good thing they can hide in trees and make traps. look at the vietname war, we both had guns, but its the fact they knew the territory more that mattered even though no one thinks of it.
@@whereami2130 very good point
The sad reality is logging and deforestation will continue to persist in the future. And in a couple decades or centuries, the Amazon rainforest would be nothing but farmlands with a few patches of jungle here and there. And all these undiscovered archaeological sites will be destroyed in the process
look at the bright side, apparently if the Amazon deforestation reaches about 19% to 25% of it's total area, researchers aren't sure, the forest reaches a point of no return and starts decaying by itself, and fun fact the rain for pretty much the whole of Brazil except coast areas comes directly from the Amazon, so not only the forest are expect to become a desert but so is the rest of the country due to draughts, which would make the overwhelming majority of Brazilian land unfit for agriculture.
It will grow back when humans are long gone ,true story
You imbeciles act like there has never been any civilization in the so called pristine rainforest. Yet there have been several, most of which were lost due to the regrowth of said rainforest over the last centuries.
@@souza6945thank you, your comment gives me hope
Good luck having civilization without logging. Deforestation is a non-issue as we have this thing called reforestation.
YOU SHOULD MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHATS UNDER THE SAHARA DESERT!!!! I’ve always been super curious about that and this is exactly the sort of research I’ve wanted to see on that topic. 10/10 video and a new subscriber here!
this was fascinating, the amazon sounds like a truly magical place, it is nice to know places like this still exist and its fun to think about what might be going on in there that we have no idea about.
The discussion about the advancement of the Sahara's southern edge implied to me that the climate of the area between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer in both continents probably underwent some major shifts over the centuries that influenced changes in flora and water availability. I'm remembering that the historical record across Central America implies some major climate shift between 1000 and 1300 AD, and if that shift impacted areas south of there as well, it could have forced the degradation of civilizations in the area.
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My theory is animal husbandry, specifically the domestication of the goat, sheep, and cattle, that led to the desertification of many regions in the Sahara and Middle East.
The hypothesis formed when I was watching a documentary about the Jordanians establishing a nature preserve in a region with little flora, due to being over grazed by local goat herders. After fencing the land off from such uses, the plants were able to return, and eventually a forest started to regrow. Apparently goats would eat all the plants, exposing the soil, rain would fall and the top soil would erode, thus inhibiting the growth of new plants. I thought it was a fascinating documentary that showed how humanity effects the environment.
You know, it never occurred to me until now that turning Sahara green would affect the amount sand and fertilizer Amazon receives. That can't be good 🤔
@@byurBUDdyI mean the Epic of Gilgamesh does talk of Great Forests. They got destroyed for logging and such during the Bronze Age so it’s not unlikely people destroyed other environments there as well
That did happen. Around that time, there was a migration of peoples northward. North America was very sparsely populated at this time, so the southern peoples had space to settle.
That said, there was still conflict. The southerners arrived with strange philosophies, gods, and languages.
North American native tribes still have stories about this time, from both perspectives.
By the time Europeans began their westward expansion, the political situation between the native nations had only recently calmed down, following centuries of gradual mingling of the new peoples and the old.
On an unrelated note: The desertification of northern Africa is, at least in part, the result of human environmental impact. And that, in turn, created the Amazon rainforest.
The earliest domesticated husbandry animals saw a population explosion due to human care, and were protected as they moved with nomadic humans across grasslands not equipped to handle the large influx of herbivores.
And as the desert overtook the grasslands, more dust was carried from it across the Atlantic.
This, in turn, delivered more and more nutrients to the South American biosphere, causing vast swathes of savannahs to be overtaken by ever-denser jungle. It was a catastrophic environmental disaster.
And it occurred before humans had even crossed out of Eurasia.
We destroyed the environment of half a continent without even setting foot on it. With sticks and goats.😮
5:35- Minecraft biomes be like:
Thanks for sharing this incredible documentary. The amount of research that was done to create this video is quite impressive. I've always known that there were "uncontacted" tribes in South America since i began watching national geographic and PBS special's in the early 80's, but had no idea how extensive their populations/ranges were, or if they even still existed. The most recent uncontacted people im familiar with are the Sentinelese who REALLY dont like to be contacted unless under very specific conditions are met.
Amazing video! I have never seen such a good material about the Amazon in English!
Never stop making videos. Your work is amazing.
For me, the best thing about LIDAR is how non-invasive it is. Like, all these discoveries were made without having to dig all of it up.. who are we to dig up the territories of long passed peoples? Let them rest.
There is so many tribes that no one knows about( my grandfather was in one)
That spunds super interesting, did ypu ever talk to him about life before contact with the people outside his tribe?
OK Buddy listen up
Your cadence and efficiency in speaking is so on point that your channel is the only one where I have to switch the playback speed back to normal. Idk how you do it but the way in which you narrate makes it so effortless to follow along
I very much agree with this, there's far fewer stops and pauses than a lot of creators have.
You... you watch all youtube vids sped up?
@@Evitaschannel if the narrators talk slow then yea
@@salvulcano3726 the brainrot must be insane
Americans in particular talk really slowly so you gotta speed them up
When you get kicked out of your tribe and stumble across a giant city with godlike technology.
@@kosmique"civilised"
"Advanced" maybe. There ain't nothing civil about the regular world. Nothing.
@@kosmiquewho never discovered fire?? I think every tribe (non technological) mastered fire, if not they wouldn't be alive at all
@@kosmique sou brasileiro ... existe um líder indígena aqui no Brasil, escritor e pensador, da tribo Krenak, chamado Ailton Krenak ele fala sobre isso, ele quando viu os funcionários da FUNAI (Agencia Nacional de Proteção e Cuidado dos Nativos Americanos) ele acreditava que era uma tribo, com tecnologia que vinha visitar ele, mas que tinha o mesmo tamanho aproximado da tribo dele. ... quando ele voo de avião e viu uma cidade do céus e percebeu que a tribo dele não era nada perto de uma cidade, ele teve a sensação de pequenez e fraqueza da tribo dele, uma sensação que ele descreveu como quebrar a coluna vertebral, pois tudo que ele tinha como convicção e certeza se quebrou. Dai ele entendeu a necessidade de proteger a tribos indígenas, por ser esse estilo de vida de coletor caçador, seminômade algo em extinção.
Um adendo, para eles bens materiais não significa riqueza, mas comida, sim é riqueza, e quando ele viu pessoas na rua passando fome e em outros lugares pessoas desperdiçando comida ele achou isso uma loucura e chamou a nossa sociedade de tribo doente e disfuncional. Ele foi levado a muitos lugares e mostrado a eles muitas " riquezas ", mas ele só ficou boquiaberto mesmo, quando viu a quantidade de comida que tinha no Mercado Municipal de São Paulo, para ele aquilo era riqueza de verdade.
There should be a correction at 1:19. Manaus is not the most heavily isolated city in the Western Hemisphere with over a million people. That title belongs to either Honolulu, Hawaii, which has a metro population of just over 1 million.
It's easier to get to Hawaii than Manaus. I think the isolation he is talking about is how difficult it is to get there
Lake Megachad sounds like a worthy body of water for a gigachad like myself to swim in.
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Fascinating stuff as always. Thanks for doing what you do!
Being called a cartographer rather than a GIS analyst honestly sounds way cooler
Explanaition for what you came here for starts at 24:30
I came for all 49 minutes
13:02 spiderman tribe
Lol
I’m definitely on the side of nature preservation. But hidden glory just underground makes me reconsider
You do realize there isn't a Planet B right?
I’ve been to the rainforest in and around Manaus. It has a beautiful opera house, and supertankers in the river.
They could afford the opera house when rubber prices were good.
The Upano valley discovery is absolutely fascinating! I never heard about it before. Who knows, maybe other civilizations were lost in time too, just because they didn't use much stone, pottery or metal.
ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE AMAZON DOCUMENTARIES EVER! Love this please do more mysterious ruins and ancient things around the world!
I still argue Gobekli Tepe is bigger, in that it rewrites the history of civilization as a concept. Not to diminish the significance of the Amazon finds, but if modern academics didn’t dismiss historic accounts out of hand, it wouldn’t have surprised anyone.
I really want real life lore to make more of these videos as I miss the videos he used to upload such as how deep is the ocean or what will happen by 2050 I don’t know if he will ever upload these old videos along with the modern conflict series.
I truly wish we could time travel only for science's sake and learning how people lived and how their cultures and histories evolved. The stories we could learn are unimaginable. And I'm all in for anything that can humble our bloated egos and regain a sense of common humanity and community.
Great documentary
Everyone gives you crap for making long videos but I love all the information you include, even if it's not exactly pertinent.
Excellent video! Thanks!
Alaska has the largest rainforest in the world, I don’t know why I’m saying this because I love how unpopulated it is here. Thank goodness most can’t handle 8 months of winter.
But it's very rugged terrain in Alaskan panhandle , similar to rainforests in southern chile
Sign me up.
I'm a Brazilian and never went to the Amazon Rain Forest. The city I live is thousands of kilometers away from it. Many things I hear from the Amazon Rainforest is as surprising to me as it is to ppl from other countries.
Just take the bus bruh
We must protect this rainforest at all costs
Bot ahh comment
@@braziliantsarlong live the tzar
Chop and replant
you wont do anything sit down nerd
It's not a monument. Chop it down and take care to replant. Just stop razing the thing. That would be enough.
Thank you for your unique and amazing content on topics that are stimulating and informative.... I find that this keeps bringing me back due to the quality and historically significant and compelling information.
This is by far the best documentation about the Amazon!
Never thought I would hear RealLifeLore talk about my city Manaus.
LiDAR is great. I have it in my robot vacuum lol
Northern green anaconda is simply one we already knew existed, but didn't realize was different (bigger, mostly) from the others.
Great job on this video. I feel like I’ve watched all your stuff. This may have been the best one you’ve done very professional and laid out with evidence.
I'm aware of all this information but the way you framed it as the last standing evidence of a post apocalypse society adds proper weight and value to these discoveries. I find this line of thinking both provocative and enlightening. Well done sir. 👍
It's a good thing there are few roads. The deforestation happens aside the roads that do exist. More roads will bring in more agriculture and logging into areas of largely untouched expanse. Agriculture is exacerbated in that there's only a few seasons of crops before more have to be cut away due to the poor soil quality.
Only an American would comment on a lack of roads.
@@myparceltape1169it's a topic in the video jackass
You had me at "Lake MEGA CHAD"!
Can we please leave the Amazon alone, before co-operations find more reasons to tear it apart
Thank you for your quality informational videos!
@reallifelore I’m glad to see this video back on UA-cam. This one is one of my favorites yet!
The fact that sand from one side of the world .anes it to the other side of the world is unfathomable to me
And Atlantic hurricanes begin in Africa!
I love sand. It's coarse and fertilises the Amazon.
Literal tons of Martian material falls on Earth every year. Same thing
The Amazon Rainforest is genuinely fascinating, in my opinion. I believe that there was once an advanced civilisation in the Amazon Rainforest deep in antiquity.
You should read 'America Before, The Key To Earth's Lost Civilization' by Graham Hancock.
@@WB-se6nzYou should stop spreading the misinformation of a con man who doesn’t care about archaeology.
@@PlatinumAltariashut up gay
@@PlatinumAltaria 👎🏻
@@WB-se6nz This whole video is about the wonders of what actual science has discovered, and you want to live in a fantasy world made up by some charlatan selling books.
Finally a video talking about Brazil, please, do more of these
Thank you for spreading awareness about the lake Megachad
I’ve pretty much always assumed that there’s tons of stuff hidden in the Amazon rainforest, and science has now proven me right 😊
Also, thank you so much for putting your sponsorship at the END of the video!❤
Fantastic video start to finish, the ending was fire
Amazing since you posted this 1 min after the video was posted. You should drink the stuff under the sink instead of spamming videos
@@J31 wym? I watched the whole thing
@@Inyourbox-kr5uf You watched a 49 minute video in 4 minutes? Why lie about something so easily disproven? Are you that desperate for attention? That's so sad
49:06 video ends
Respect
Fantastic, _thank you_
Ya no sht.
Good to know where your heads at though which begs me to ask the question...
Did you remember to put pants on today or just stare at them untill someone had to come remind you you're late for school?
*^I would have said work instead of school but I wouldn't believe you have a job even if you told me you did*😂
@@JJ.Williams96 Unfamiliar with jokes, eh?
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This was one of your most interesting videos yet. I really enjoyed this deep dive!!
This is actually really interesting, I had no idea there were so many ancient civilizations in the Amazon, nor what happened to them
Sadly the european diseases eliminated every advanced ancient civilizations in the Amazon 😢
1:40 Sounds like a Grand Tour challenge! How hard could it be... ? 😁
Too bad that's not happening now... ☹
And like that...I am now sad
Let us all hold a moment of silence and rememberance for Lake Mega Chad.
I feel like we’re burying the lede here on the existence (or past existence) of “Lake Mega-Chad”.
If you're interested in learning more about lake mega Chad the channel miniminuteman's has a video titled ghosts of the green sahara that goes over the formation, ancient ppl and eventual shrinkage of lake mega Chad, as well as the desertification of the Sahara.
One of your best videos so far! Thank you!
i lived in the amazon rainforest for the lockdown and was the best 8 months of my entire life