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Ancient mesoamerican civilizations do not seem recognizably human
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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: pearly church building 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: federal meetinghouse boltzmann (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: Orchid business firm international law enforcement agency ... 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: pearly church building 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: cerise parlor 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: pearly church building 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: cerise parlor 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: Galvanic flushed indian lodge pozpig 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: jade blathering nowag 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: pearly church building 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: pearly church building 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: 180 lemon people who are hurt therapy 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: Bateful orange philosopher-king station (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: jade blathering nowag 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: pearly church building 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: Charismatic abnormal orchestra pit 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: slap-happy house mood 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: pearly church building 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: slap-happy house mood 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: pearly church building 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: chartreuse brethren 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: irate messiness *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: Unhinged bossy toilet seat rigpig 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: Mewling tattoo 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: walnut toaster (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: Titillating Potus 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: pearly church building (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: Umber swollen masturbator 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: pearly church building 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: Charismatic abnormal orchestra pit 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: histrionic center 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: Titillating Potus 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: Titillating Potus 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: walnut toaster Same with sub Saharan africa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954500) |