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El Dorado
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El Dorado El Dorado
The City of Myths
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The Legend Begins
• The original legend appears to have begun around 1530-1540
• It was started as a story called El Hombre Dorado or the golden man. This referred to a South American chieftain who was immensely wealthy and covered himself in gold dust.
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Why?
• The reason for such an eccentric royal custom has been unclear.
• The most commonly thought reason was for symbolic religious reasons.
• Mainly the rituals of the Musica have been the suggested.
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The Tragedy • Raleigh returned to
England, where King James ordered him beheaded for, among other things, disobeying orders to avoid conflict with the Spanish.
• Watt Raleigh expedition was a disaster, and Watt Raleigh was killed in a battle with the Spaniards.
• Raleigh returned to England, where King James ordered him to be beheaded for, disobeying orders to avoid conflict with the Spanish.
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What people thought• Because of the things that
he did people supposed that there would be a Golden Kingdom and a city or even country where gold was abundant. This kingdom was known to the natives as Manoa or Omoa.
• Over the years a number of explorers, looters, and invaders attempted to discover El Dorado. The myth probably motivated a lot of the invasions on the native cities by greedy Europeans.
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Where was it located?• Despite being a
legendary, lost city, El Dorado has been found a number of times.
• One of the people who supposedly discovered its secret was Antionio de Berrio who stated Manoa(the golden city/El Dorado) to be near the source of the Caroni river.
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Where was it located?
• El Dorado was also located near Lake Guatavita
• Lake Guatavita is a two hour drive north of the Colombian capital of Bogota
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Who searched for El Dorado.
• The most famous person to search for El Dorado was Sir Walter Raleigh
• Some other people who searched for it were Sir Walter Raleigh, Francisco de Orellana, Hernan Cortes, and Watt Raleigh
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Class question
El Dorado supposedly nearby which lake?
A.Lake Erie B.Lake Guatavita C.Lake
TanganyikaD.Lake Mweru
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Works cited
• http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/orellana/orellana_b00.html#
• http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/754792/posts
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"De Guiana"“Guiana, whose rich feet
are mines of gold,Whose forehead
knocks against the roof of stars,
Stands on her tiptoes at fair England
looking,”
Poem excerpt: George Chapman, "De
Guiana," 1