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Ancient mesoamerican civilizations do not seem recognizably human
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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: Mauve chest-beating mediation french chef (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: Swashbuckling school azn ... 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: Laughsome bull headed rigpig 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: Laughsome bull headed rigpig 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: abusive meetinghouse mexican 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: high-end plaza boiling water 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: Khaki parlour 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: Canary provocative mother pit (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: high-end plaza boiling water 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: stimulating obsidian elastic band headpube 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: Shimmering trip lodge striped hyena 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: Shimmering trip lodge striped hyena 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: Hairraiser flatulent location regret 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: Comical scarlet church building mad-dog skullcap *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: Beady-eyed sticky gay wizard halford 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: glittery stage 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: Olive Background Story (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: big federal toilet seat market 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage (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: mind-boggling organic girlfriend 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: tan disgusting parlor old irish cottage 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: stimulating obsidian elastic band headpube 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: Indecent Marvelous Center Turdskin 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: big federal toilet seat market 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: big federal toilet seat market 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: Olive Background Story Same with sub Saharan africa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954500) |