proudlyfreckled replied to your post âFun fact: When I was a kid I did not really realize that the Amazon...â
So Amazons were not from the Amazon? #wowifeelstupid
RIGHT?! Apparently the Amazon rainforest is called that because there were tribes in South America where the women fought alongside the men, so the area was named after the Amazons of Greek myth (which was apparently supposed to be located somewhere in Iran, Turkey or Libya according to a very quick Wikipedia search I just did so AHA they were very probably not white anyway.)
I really really just assumed for a lot of my life that the Greeks just knew about South America for some reason??? I'm not even sure.
But also you did a paper on Wonder Woman in uni so I am doubly impressed this has never come up before.













