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Ancient mesoamerican civilizations do not seem recognizably human
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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry We don't even know anything about most of them. All we have is some old ruins, no writing. We don't know wtf they called themselves or what they did. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522736) |
Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: Honey-headed fortuitous meteor field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522920) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: charismatic flesh crackhouse ... there is writing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522924) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 6:48 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry Not for most of these people there isn't. And we have very little of the writing anyone left behind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890403) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: lascivious swollen electric furnace theater We do have writing, and we know that one of the most powerful mesoamerican kings called himself "Jaguar Penis" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522925) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:27 AM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry For some of them we have writing, but only the more recent ones. We don't know wtf the Olmecs or Toltecs were doing. There are many others that left even less behind than they did. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522994) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:32 AM Author: lascivious swollen electric furnace theater I suppose it is notable that we're not sure who exactly built Teotihuacan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523025) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:34 AM Author: Opaque vigorous chapel Pretty sure what they were doing was building giant heads, the most prestigious activity of any great ancient civilization. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523036) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:41 AM Author: Tripping dopamine How much of the workforce was just slave labor for the king to pursue his public works and monuments to the gods/himself, and how many others occupied themselves as farmers or artisans, selling ponchos, backpacks and chess sets to spendthrift passers-by? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523071) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2020 12:57 AM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry Is this rach's last known poast? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40470257) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 6:50 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry The olmecs developed a writing system late in their epoch, but we only have like 2 or 3 examples of it anywhere in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890413) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:51 PM Author: titillating philosopher-king locus tbf, there is probably some Chiapas drug lord calling himself that today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890966) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:15 AM Author: shimmering church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522941) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:20 AM Author: Tripping dopamine I mean, they didn't even have wheels. What the fuck were they doing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522964) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:30 AM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry They were getting high as fuck and domesticating llamas, corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, peppers and tobacco. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523012) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:42 PM Author: haunting irate boltzmann sanctuary The Incas did llamas and potatoes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954366) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:37 PM Author: Azure Bespoke Messiness They went hard down the religion and bronze working parts of the tech tree (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954352) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:40 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry Religion, Astronomy, Mathematics, Masonry, probably in that order. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954359) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:43 PM Author: Azure Bespoke Messiness Bronze/iron a prereq for compass and optics which gets you astronomy
Tbf very easy to overlook the wheel if you’ve got pottery already
http://www.civfanatics.net/downloads/civ4/reference/CIV4%20TECHTREE%20FRONT%20ENG%20Lo%20Res.pdf |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:48 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry Looks like you can get to astronomy through paper and theology and some other bullshit that doesn't require metal working.
Oh wait I read that wrong. Looks like those are necessary but not sufficient. |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:32 AM Author: Shaky Senate Rigpig Not too surprising, because Guatemalans are their descendants and they don't look recognizably human either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523024) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:45 AM Author: sable parlor *rolls skull down pyramid steps * (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523096) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 6:51 PM Author: amethyst kitchen Most of the writings were destroyed by enemy tribes or by spanish conquistadors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890420) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:54 PM Author: Translucent Godawful Cuckoldry The Spanish did God's work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890979) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:08 PM Author: hideous magenta coldplay fan national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954503) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:13 PM Author: federal territorial gay wizard Small pox really. The occupants of north america were doomed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954537) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:31 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954322) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:33 PM Author: buff multi-billionaire ticket booth Archaeologists have decided that the most important ritual in their culture was “the ball game” but no one knows wtf it looked like or what any of the rules were. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954328) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:36 PM Author: Exciting step-uncle's house dingle berry It looks like it was different everywhere. Court sizes vary widely, as does the size of the hoops. It seems the some courts were used for purely competitive games whereas others were ceremonial and probably choreographed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954348) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:46 PM Author: haunting irate boltzmann sanctuary Mesoamerican civs were the most brutal in history, and that's with full knowledge that most civilizations were very brutal by 21st c. western standards. No other civilization practiced human sacrifice on such a scale. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954382) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:50 PM Author: fear-inspiring emerald black woman location thousands of virgins a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954400) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:03 PM Author: federal territorial gay wizard There is evidence of mass human sacrifices, to the tune of thousands of people at a time.
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:05 PM Author: federal territorial gay wizard Think about the cultures in north america ten thousand years ago that witnessed the massive glacier breaking up and catastrophic flooding like we've never imagined. Some dude was around when that shit went down. It would have been followed by insane forest fires that leave a layer of smoke across the globe. Just nuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954477) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:08 PM Author: hideous magenta coldplay fan national Same with sub Saharan africa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954500) |