▶ Your Answer :
The reading passages contend that prior to European colonization in the 1600s and 1700s, more than 30 million people lived in South America. Some historians speculate that many of them inhabited the Amazon rain forest and formed a huge, highly developed society there. However, the available evidence shows that it is extremely doubtful that the Amazon has ever supported a large, advanced civilization. On the other hands, the lecture brings up several points that contradict this argument.
First of all, the speaker argues that most Amazon people hard work to together build many buildings there. This place developed with Amazon people. This casts doubt on the reading which states that the dense jungle of the Amazon rain forest prevented the formation of a vast civilization.
In addition, according to the speaker, there is some island, which has many beautiful kinds of stuff and Amazon is, too. Most amazon people made only highly design. There are not beautiful items than Amazon’s stuff in the world. This rebuffs the reading passage’s assertion that the artifacts that have been discovered in the Amazon lack sophistication.
The final point made by the lecture passage’s argument that rather European expeditions were helped Amazon’s civilization because many people can study with this evidence about Amazon. And Amazon can develop from their study. This refutes the reading passage’s argument that European expeditions into the Amazon rain forest proved that no large civilization existed there. |