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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 ...
Stimulating gaping
  10/24/17
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Talented maroon jap nursing home
  10/25/17
... there is writing
zombie-like gas station
  10/25/17
Not for most of these people there isn't. And we have very l...
Stimulating gaping
  04/21/18
We do have writing, and we know that one of the most powerfu...
multi-colored jew
  10/25/17
For some of them we have writing, but only the more recent o...
Stimulating gaping
  10/25/17
I suppose it is notable that we're not sure who exactly buil...
multi-colored jew
  10/25/17
Pretty sure what they were doing was building giant heads, t...
Excitant Abode Yarmulke
  10/25/17
How much of the workforce was just slave labor for the king ...
Painfully honest burgundy dog poop toilet seat
  10/25/17
Is this rach's last known poast?
Stimulating gaping
  06/22/20
The olmecs developed a writing system late in their epoch, b...
Stimulating gaping
  04/21/18
tbf, there is probably some Chiapas drug lord calling himsel...
trip effete ladyboy
  04/21/18
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Buff masturbator
  10/25/17
I mean, they didn't even have wheels. What the fuck were th...
Painfully honest burgundy dog poop toilet seat
  10/25/17
They were getting high as fuck and domesticating llamas, cor...
Stimulating gaping
  10/25/17
The Incas did llamas and potatoes.
appetizing domesticated parlour
  09/20/20
They went hard down the religion and bronze working parts of...
Wine exhilarant native queen of the night
  09/20/20
Religion, Astronomy, Mathematics, Masonry, probably in that ...
Stimulating gaping
  09/20/20
Bronze/iron a prereq for compass and optics which gets you a...
Wine exhilarant native queen of the night
  09/20/20
Looks like you can get to astronomy through paper and theolo...
Stimulating gaping
  09/20/20
Not too surprising, because Guatemalans are their descendant...
Erotic Fantasy-prone Candlestick Maker Police Squad
  10/25/17
*rolls skull down pyramid steps *
wonderful bawdyhouse
  10/25/17
Most of the writings were destroyed by enemy tribes or by sp...
aphrodisiac citrine regret sex offender
  04/21/18
The Spanish did God's work.
Tantric Juggernaut Trump Supporter
  04/21/18
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disgusting state
  09/20/20
Small pox really. The occupants of north america were doomed...
Seedy anal dragon
  09/20/20
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Stimulating gaping
  09/20/20
Archaeologists have decided that the most important ritual i...
ivory theatre
  09/20/20
It looks like it was different everywhere. Court sizes vary ...
Stimulating gaping
  09/20/20
Mesoamerican civs were the most brutal in history, and that'...
appetizing domesticated parlour
  09/20/20
thousands of virgins a day
Dashing heaven
  09/20/20
There is evidence of mass human sacrifices, to the tune of t...
Seedy anal dragon
  09/20/20
Think about the cultures in north america ten thousand years...
Seedy anal dragon
  09/20/20
Same with sub Saharan africa
disgusting state
  09/20/20


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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM
Author: Stimulating gaping

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: Talented maroon jap nursing home



(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: zombie-like gas station

... 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: Stimulating gaping

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: multi-colored jew

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: Stimulating gaping

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: multi-colored jew

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: Excitant Abode Yarmulke

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: Painfully honest burgundy dog poop toilet seat

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: Stimulating gaping

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: Stimulating gaping

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: trip effete ladyboy

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: Buff masturbator



(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: Painfully honest burgundy dog poop toilet seat

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: Stimulating gaping

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: appetizing domesticated parlour

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: Wine exhilarant native queen of the night

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: Stimulating gaping

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: Wine exhilarant native queen of the night

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: Stimulating gaping

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: Erotic Fantasy-prone Candlestick Maker Police Squad

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: wonderful bawdyhouse

*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: aphrodisiac citrine regret sex offender

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: Tantric Juggernaut Trump Supporter

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: disgusting state



(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: Seedy anal dragon

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: Stimulating gaping



(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: ivory theatre

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: Stimulating gaping

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: appetizing domesticated parlour

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: Dashing heaven

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: Seedy anal dragon

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: Seedy anal dragon

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: disgusting state

Same with sub Saharan africa

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