>There are very real reasons that America was "forested" and africa had "jungle".


And, as yet, you have presented no evidence that the reason was anything other than the very different physical nature of the land. According to M-W, the word"jungle" didn't enter English until 1776, which, if true, destroys your elaborate "propaganda" argument, and implies that the reason the Nth American forests weren't called jungles was because the word didn't exist in English at the time. Sometimes, a cigar really is just a rolled up tobacco leaf