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Jan 14, 2013 · The European myth that arose of El Dorado, as a lost city of gold waiting for discovery by an adventurous conqueror, encapsulates the Europeans' endless thirst for gold and their unerring drive...
Dec 5, 2023 · Our lust for this shiny metal gave rise to the myth of El Dorado, a lost city of gold waiting to be discovered by adventurous conquerors. The myth of El Dorado originated deep in South...
- Origins of El Dorado
- Alternative Origin Story
- Pizarro's Search For El Dorado
- The German Conquistadors
- Additional Resources
- Bibliography
One of the most famous El Dorado origin stories was first mentioned when Juan de Castellanos, a conquistador-turned-priest, included it as part of his verse history of Spanish heroism in the Americas, "Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias", likely written in the 1570s. According to the World History Encyclopedia, the story relates to the chief of ...
The second version of the El Dorado origin story dates to 1541, around 20 years after Cortez conquered the Aztecs and eight years after the Incan emperor Atahualpa had been murdered by Francisco Pizarro. At this point in history, the Spanish hadn't yet ventured into very much of the continent, meaning much of the territory was as yet unexplored by ...
In February 1541 another Spanish conquistador named Gonzales Pizarro gathered a small force of men and set off from Quito, Ecuador, in search of the land of the mythical king El Dorado. In his own accounts of his adventure, Pizarro describes El Dorado as a lake, not a man. A third contemporary source, the chronicler Pedro de Cieza de León, describi...
Pizarro's was the first explicit attempt to find El Dorado. But once stories of the golden land spread, more conquistadors began claiming that their journeys of exploration into the interior had been in search of it. This is demonstrated in the story of Sebastian de Benalcázar, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and Nikolaus Federmann, according to Jose Ig...
You can read more about El Dorado at the World History Encyclopedia website. Alternatively, you can watch this video by Science Channel.
Avellaneda, J.I. "The Men of Nikolaus Federmann: Conquerors of the New Kingdom of Granada". (Cambridge University Press, 1987)Bandelier, Adolphe F. "The Gilded Man" (D. Appleton, 1893)Burnett, D Graham. "Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography and a British El Dorado" (University of Chicago Press, 2000)Cochrane, C. "Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia". (AMS Press,1825)The origins of El Dorado lie deep in South America. And like all enduring legends, the tale of El Dorado contains some scraps of truth.
May 11, 2022 · Concentrated around what would become the city of Bogotá, this advanced civilization likely inspired the legend of El Dorado, according to Marc Aronson, an associate professor of library science at Rutgers University and author of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado.
Feb 23, 2017 · As soon as the first Conquistadors ventured into South America in the sixteenth century they started to hear myths of an indigenous tribe with fantastic wealth. One myth in particular captured their imaginations – that of the Muisca tribe hidden high up in the Andes Mountains.
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Apr 1, 2014 · El Dorado ('Gilded Man' or 'Golden One') referred to the legendary kings of the Muisca people who populated the northern Andes of modern-day Colombia from 600 to 1600. The name derives from the coronation ritual when the new king was covered in gold dust before he leapt into Lake Guatavita.
