" More recent interpretations by Anna Roosevelt have stressed the long-term accomplishments of manioc-based civilizations like those that created the pottery of Marajo island at its mouth.
Roger North led an Irish expedition to settle in the valley of this river, which ended in anarchy when Bernard O'Brien learned the language of its inhabitants, traveled up it to visit a queen called the "Great Lady" and organized local bowmen to fight against the Dutch and the Franciscans. Native ecology in the region around this river was described in a book by Betty Meggers, who called it "a counterfeit paradise." More recent interpretations by Anna Roosevelt have stressed the long-term accomplishments of manioc-based civilizations like those that created the pottery of Marajo island at its mouth. An opera house named the Teatro [of this river] was built during its rubber boom in Manaus, a city at the confluence of the Rio Negro and this river. For 10 points, conquistador Francisco de Orellana voyaged down what river that he named after the warrior women of Greek myth?
Roger North led an Irish expedition to settle in the valley of this river, which ended in anarchy when Bernard O'Brien learned the language of its inhabitants, traveled up it to visit a queen called the "Great Lady" and organized local bowmen to fight against the Dutch and the Franciscans.
{Amazon} River