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Old 09-03-2010, 07:50 PM
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Interesting. Cortés' men wrote of how when they first saw Tenochtitlan it was far more grand than anything they had ever seen in Spain. To call them primitive is basically just a baseless insult, because they had a highly developed culture. But of course, it wasn't Western, therefore that means it they are savages in the minds of the ethnocentric.
Astronomy, yes, there is no doubt that they were advanced in Astronomy.

But hey guys, don't listen to me just go watch "An Inconvenient Truth " again for the 100th time and cheer your ineligible prezidint