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The Amazons

In Our Time

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The New World

The Amazons are talked about a lot by explorers at this time, or rather by their chroniclers. Christopher Columbus goes off at the end of the 15th century, you know, he's looking for islands of women. Now, what makes Ariana different is that when he goes off there in 1542, his chronicler, the friar that's with him, actually says that they saw some amazons. They didn't just hear stories about them. They actually have a privileged visual encounter with some of these so-called amazons,. These women that they term amazons, these warrior women. And you actually get a visual physical description. The maiming of the river

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