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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 ...
Tan native useless brakes
  10/24/17
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Carmine tattoo
  10/25/17
... there is writing
Adventurous Bawdyhouse Crotch
  10/25/17
Not for most of these people there isn't. And we have very l...
Tan native useless brakes
  04/21/18
We do have writing, and we know that one of the most powerfu...
wonderful foreskin
  10/25/17
For some of them we have writing, but only the more recent o...
Tan native useless brakes
  10/25/17
I suppose it is notable that we're not sure who exactly buil...
wonderful foreskin
  10/25/17
Pretty sure what they were doing was building giant heads, t...
Talented keepsake machete
  10/25/17
How much of the workforce was just slave labor for the king ...
naked address black woman
  10/25/17
Is this rach's last known poast?
Tan native useless brakes
  06/22/20
The olmecs developed a writing system late in their epoch, b...
Tan native useless brakes
  04/21/18
tbf, there is probably some Chiapas drug lord calling himsel...
swashbuckling copper chapel volcanic crater
  04/21/18
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Lake trust fund lettuce
  10/25/17
I mean, they didn't even have wheels. What the fuck were th...
naked address black woman
  10/25/17
They were getting high as fuck and domesticating llamas, cor...
Tan native useless brakes
  10/25/17
The Incas did llamas and potatoes.
Coiffed drab pozpig tanning salon
  09/20/20
They went hard down the religion and bronze working parts of...
Irradiated Meetinghouse Cuckold
  09/20/20
Religion, Astronomy, Mathematics, Masonry, probably in that ...
Tan native useless brakes
  09/20/20
Bronze/iron a prereq for compass and optics which gets you a...
Irradiated Meetinghouse Cuckold
  09/20/20
Looks like you can get to astronomy through paper and theolo...
Tan native useless brakes
  09/20/20
Not too surprising, because Guatemalans are their descendant...
Dun 180 shrine
  10/25/17
*rolls skull down pyramid steps *
Excitant space
  10/25/17
Most of the writings were destroyed by enemy tribes or by sp...
White Histrionic Hairy Legs Sanctuary
  04/21/18
The Spanish did God's work.
Crawly silver ladyboy multi-billionaire
  04/21/18
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medicated fragrant stead
  09/20/20
Small pox really. The occupants of north america were doomed...
Brilliant Alpha Pistol
  09/20/20
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Tan native useless brakes
  09/20/20
Archaeologists have decided that the most important ritual i...
lime trailer park
  09/20/20
It looks like it was different everywhere. Court sizes vary ...
Tan native useless brakes
  09/20/20
Mesoamerican civs were the most brutal in history, and that'...
Coiffed drab pozpig tanning salon
  09/20/20
thousands of virgins a day
bipolar chest-beating incel
  09/20/20
There is evidence of mass human sacrifices, to the tune of t...
Brilliant Alpha Pistol
  09/20/20
Think about the cultures in north america ten thousand years...
Brilliant Alpha Pistol
  09/20/20
Same with sub Saharan africa
medicated fragrant stead
  09/20/20


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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM
Author: Tan native useless brakes

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: Carmine tattoo



(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: Adventurous Bawdyhouse Crotch

... 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 native useless brakes

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: wonderful foreskin

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 native useless brakes

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: wonderful foreskin

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: Talented keepsake machete

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: naked address black woman

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 native useless brakes

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 native useless brakes

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: swashbuckling copper chapel volcanic crater

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: Lake trust fund lettuce



(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: naked address black woman

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 native useless brakes

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: Coiffed drab pozpig tanning salon

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: Irradiated Meetinghouse Cuckold

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 native useless brakes

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: Irradiated Meetinghouse Cuckold

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: Tan native useless brakes

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: Dun 180 shrine

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: Excitant space

*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: White Histrionic Hairy Legs Sanctuary

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: Crawly silver ladyboy multi-billionaire

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: medicated fragrant stead



(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: Brilliant Alpha Pistol

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 native useless brakes



(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: lime trailer park

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 native useless brakes

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: Coiffed drab pozpig tanning salon

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: bipolar chest-beating incel

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: Brilliant Alpha Pistol

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: Brilliant Alpha Pistol

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: medicated fragrant stead

Same with sub Saharan africa

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