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Ancient mesoamerican civilizations do not seem recognizably human
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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: lime abnormal lettuce (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: Indecent death wish ... 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: Stirring disturbing shrine toilet seat 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: Stirring disturbing shrine toilet seat 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: Rusted Location 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: drab marvelous hominid trailer park 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: sooty nursing home 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: self-absorbed associate toaster (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: drab marvelous hominid trailer park 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: Racy corner quadroon 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: Appetizing Bright School 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: Appetizing Bright School 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: Heady Fluffy Roast Beef 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: mewling selfie university *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: outnumbered wagecucks 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: Galvanic Purple Wrinkle 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: Big Zippy Antidepressant Drug (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: boyish flickering range 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor (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: cordovan effete rehab 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: stubborn passionate main people fortuitous meteor 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: Racy corner quadroon 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: Trip coiffed double fault 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: boyish flickering range 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: boyish flickering range 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: Big Zippy Antidepressant Drug Same with sub Saharan africa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954500) |