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Ancient mesoamerican civilizations do not seem recognizably human

We don't even know anything about most of them. All we have ...
dun prole pervert
  10/24/17
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Beady-eyed bull headed selfie
  10/25/17
... there is writing
adulterous police squad national
  10/25/17
Not for most of these people there isn't. And we have very l...
dun prole pervert
  04/21/18
We do have writing, and we know that one of the most powerfu...
Titillating menage
  10/25/17
For some of them we have writing, but only the more recent o...
dun prole pervert
  10/25/17
I suppose it is notable that we're not sure who exactly buil...
Titillating menage
  10/25/17
Pretty sure what they were doing was building giant heads, t...
Arousing jap black woman
  10/25/17
How much of the workforce was just slave labor for the king ...
Free-loading university
  10/25/17
Is this rach's last known poast?
dun prole pervert
  06/22/20
The olmecs developed a writing system late in their epoch, b...
dun prole pervert
  04/21/18
tbf, there is probably some Chiapas drug lord calling himsel...
jet cracking quadroon clown
  04/21/18
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transparent stag film
  10/25/17
I mean, they didn't even have wheels. What the fuck were th...
Free-loading university
  10/25/17
They were getting high as fuck and domesticating llamas, cor...
dun prole pervert
  10/25/17
The Incas did llamas and potatoes.
fighting marketing idea
  09/20/20
They went hard down the religion and bronze working parts of...
Infuriating provocative macaca
  09/20/20
Religion, Astronomy, Mathematics, Masonry, probably in that ...
dun prole pervert
  09/20/20
Bronze/iron a prereq for compass and optics which gets you a...
Infuriating provocative macaca
  09/20/20
Looks like you can get to astronomy through paper and theolo...
dun prole pervert
  09/20/20
Not too surprising, because Guatemalans are their descendant...
light becky
  10/25/17
*rolls skull down pyramid steps *
arrogant ticket booth
  10/25/17
Most of the writings were destroyed by enemy tribes or by sp...
180 Tanning Salon Pisswyrm
  04/21/18
The Spanish did God's work.
topaz supple old irish cottage stage
  04/21/18
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slippery lodge
  09/20/20
Small pox really. The occupants of north america were doomed...
white blathering trump supporter
  09/20/20
...
dun prole pervert
  09/20/20
Archaeologists have decided that the most important ritual i...
aromatic bespoke locus candlestick maker
  09/20/20
It looks like it was different everywhere. Court sizes vary ...
dun prole pervert
  09/20/20
Mesoamerican civs were the most brutal in history, and that'...
fighting marketing idea
  09/20/20
thousands of virgins a day
Wine haunted graveyard
  09/20/20
There is evidence of mass human sacrifices, to the tune of t...
white blathering trump supporter
  09/20/20
Think about the cultures in north america ten thousand years...
white blathering trump supporter
  09/20/20
Same with sub Saharan africa
slippery lodge
  09/20/20


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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM
Author: dun prole pervert

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)



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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM
Author: Beady-eyed bull headed selfie



(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: adulterous police squad national

... 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: dun prole pervert

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: Titillating menage

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: dun prole pervert

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: Titillating menage

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: Arousing jap black woman

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: Free-loading university

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: dun prole pervert

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: dun prole pervert

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: jet cracking quadroon clown

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: transparent stag film



(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: Free-loading university

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: dun prole pervert

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: fighting marketing idea

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: Infuriating provocative macaca

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: dun prole pervert

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: Infuriating provocative macaca

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954370)



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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:48 PM
Author: dun prole pervert

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954393)



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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:32 AM
Author: light becky

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: arrogant ticket booth

*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: 180 Tanning Salon Pisswyrm

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: topaz supple old irish cottage 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: slippery lodge



(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: white blathering trump supporter

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: dun prole pervert



(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: aromatic bespoke locus candlestick maker

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: dun prole pervert

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: fighting marketing idea

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: Wine haunted graveyard

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: white blathering trump supporter

There is evidence of mass human sacrifices, to the tune of thousands of people at a time.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954463)



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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:05 PM
Author: white blathering trump supporter

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: slippery lodge

Same with sub Saharan africa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954500)