How much native american influence you think america had as a democracy and culture?

[Thrynn]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Erm, well, aside from the fact that you seem to be lumping several different peoples together...

Figure 1: The Mayans built large paved roads between ancient cities that still exist today and can be traveled on. Other peoples would have had well-traveled roads as well.

Figure 2: This is the Mayan writing system. The Mexica had a similar system, and the Olmec probably had one as well, though no evidence of such has turned up yet.

Agriculture was well-developed within Aztec society. It was probably more efficient and less work than US agriculture today, as a matter of fact. At least they wouldn't be caught having to turn all the excess corn into liquor in a desperate attempt to not go bankrupt as the surplus in the market causes prices to drop.

Important war captives were primarily used as sacrifices. Babies were not used. For example, 'los danzantes' (the dancers) are a large group of carvings representing war captives in various states of sacrifice, and each have a specific name written in hieroglyphics. Kings and nobility would have been much more likely to be sacrificed than any other person. They would have also been forced to participate (and lose) in the ritual ball games where the losers were killed.

The Europeans, of course, eventually swooped in, spread their plagues, took the gold they saw, burned nearly all the manuscripts in an attempt to exorcise the devil from Mesoamerica, converted or enslaved or killed the natives, and left behind the broken remnants of a people that most today consider vicious, baby-slaughtering, bloody-minded, uncivilized inferior savages with no proper form of society to be seen, who only know how to do war whoops and say things like, "Me big chief!" while beating their chests when they're not dismembering innocent children to appease their barbarian gods.

Actually no, it's you who's lumping people together but in an opposite and roundabout way. Initially I was referring to the natives to the continent that my grandfathers conquered. I love geneology because it's not speculation, it's PROOF.

You are throwing in some argument about some South American Indians thousands of miles away when the original question... YOUR question was about American "democracy" (which if you knew anything about history, you would know what a loathsome and vile thing democracy was to the founders of the new American Republic.)

What I said about them holds true. So who is lumping people together, again?

What I said doesn't jive with your Marxist indoctrination through your local school system, so you flew into a rage, called me a racist, idiot, no credibility, when it was you sir, who did exactly the thing you accused me of. You rushed to defend every aspect of a foreign culture of which very little written evidence survives to paint a rosy picture of the Noble Native who never did any wrong and who were decimated by some evil WHITE men

(ooooh burn! THE biggest racial slur out there these days.... WHITE!)