A village with an abundance of gold...
There was a village, at some time, in some place, and I'm pretty sure it was in South America, and I'm pretty sure it was some indigenous people, tribe folk like, and I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the eighteenth century that this village was found and its inhabitants murdered.
They had gold. Tons of fucking gold. They didn't know why, they didn't care. It was pretty, and in such abundance it was worth nothing more than anything else, and everybody in the village had jewelery and gold shoes and gold weapons and everything else, and them some settlers showed up and were like "LOL! You guys are SO fucking dead!"
Has anyone heard of this?
machu pichu!
Can you be a published author already so that I have easier accessibility to the wonderful things that come out of your head?
Aishwarya Rai's been to Machu Pikachu, that's good enough for me!
The legend of El Dorado sounds so familiar to what I've heard that it could be it, but I don't know. I think I would have remembered that name, El Dorado.
And Six, I'm led to believe this story is true. Credit to half remembered words of almost a decade ago, though, and I pulled this story from grade seven, but we never studied much of South America, so this must have been one of the things our home room teacher just told us, having an interest in history herself, which was probably relevant at the time to our learning about some explorer. She liked to go off on tangents.
Stuck in a wiki-vortex now. Monkeydude, your El Dorado link showed me pretty much everything I needed to know, now I'm just curious about this complete slaughter of a village and wondering whether or not it really happened.
Well, complete village slaughter happened repeatedly with the Conquistadors. But as to a specific village o gold theory...hmmm.
You should get that movie Aguirre, The Wrath of God. It's about some conquistador dudes searching for El Dorado and the one guy with the crazy eyes ends up going crazy and the opening shot is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on film and the ending with all the monkeys is fucking insane! Get it!
Yeah! What he said!
It was more looking for the tree of life/fountain of youthy. But, yeah, plenty of conquistadors fighting guatamalans.
What was Montezuma's revenge?
edit: I mean I can look it up myself, but I was wondering if the revenge had anything to do with gold/people slaughter. I thought maybe it did.
montezuma's revenge is diarrhea.
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also, i think there was a Thundercats episode where they land on some planet and the people are trying to get rid of all this garbage they got laying around. piling it in landfills and whatnot and it turns out that it's gold that they're trying to get rid of, and they were all like"What the hell all your guys doing? that's Gold!"
I am here to simply reiterate what Nate said and what Eddy said about what Nate said: Aguirre, the Wrath of God is most amazing...
If you're curious, I have a copy and would be willing to send it if'n you don't have netflix or whatever kids do these days...
There were a lot of places like this in South America. The legend of El Dorado was born from a chief who was covered in Gold Dust. Sierra del Plata, they gavea lotta silver as gifts to explorers. Pizarro pretty much died because of the greed of European explorers. But then, so did most of the indigenous tribes of South America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_del_Plata