Documentary

For my documentary I watched Secrets: The Golden Raft of El Dorado. The documentary was about a small statue of a golden raft with a chieftain and 12 other tribe people. The myth of El Dorado surrounds the tribe of the Muisca. Spanish conquistadors saw the Muisca people and followed them to their homes. They saw the Muisca just throwing gold in the lake and burying it, and every family seemed to have a supply of gold. The conquistadors believed that because they were willing to just throw the gold away the must have a secret city of gold. To the conquistadors the city of El Dorado was a real thing. It turned out that the Muisca had the only source of salt in nearby lands because they lived inland. Their gold was from trading with other tribes who panned for gold in the river. The Muisca gave the gold as an offering to the gods. It was interesting to see how the two groups of people misunderstood each other. It was sad to see how the Spanish Conquistadors didn't care about the Indians beliefs and cared more about getting gold and converting people to Christianity.
um its a documentary so id give it a 9/10 i guess