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Originally Posted by Thrynn
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No roads, primitive economics, inadequate primitive farming, no wheels, no written language, scalpings, ritual human sacrifice, rivers of blood flowing down the steps of aztec pyramids as still living hearts are cut out of the victim's chests, ball games where one team is ritually slaughtered at the end of the match.
These are but cross section of the customs of the noble native.
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See this is exactly the shit rap ive been talking about, ignorant racist people who perpetuate myths.
Mayas had a written language:
Aztecs had a written language:
http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/...6227948970b-pi
These languages have roots in the Olmec language (that was also written)
No farming? This is what tenochtitlan looked like when spaniards first came there, they had never seen any city like it, even along European references:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/340...544b67aef5.jpg
The mathematics of the mayans was more advanced in the 1300s than it was in europe.
One other thing, is that Europeans had this wealth of culture they could draw on to prop up their own on, arab medecine, arab optics, chinese technology, greek material translated by arab scholars. Spain was basically a medieval shithole before the arabs came and raised the level of culture there.
Im not denying that the aztec for example had ritual sacrifices, but what else
could you call burning witches at the stake but ritual sacrifice? A hundred thousand women in 2 centuries, do we reject Europe as primitive as a whole because part of their populace engaged in barbaric behavior? The hold that the religious caste had on aztec population was probably very similar to the hold european religious caste had on european population around the same time. This is just plain racism, double standards.