Atlantis Paper
Isn't it amazing that a story that was written and told over 2,500 years ago by Plato, a Greek philosopher continues to capture the public imagination today. Atlantis was a story of a lost civilization that sunk to the bottom of the ocean in a single day/night. It is described as a large continent with a very different civilization. I think that Atlantis is located in Bolivia which is located in South America because many of Plato's clues associate with the region. Plato's clues are divided into different categories. Those categories are: location, landscape, disasters, animals/ currency.
The first major clue deals with location. In Plato's writing he said that Atlantis is located outside the pillars of Heracles. The pillars of Heracles are what would be today Northern part of Africa, or it is also known as the strait of Gibraltar. Bolivia is opposite of the pillars of Heracles. This clue is very beneficial for Bolivia because it outlaws other countries such as......
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