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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Jagothaciv@kbin.earth 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can imagine the conquistadors burned everyone and anything within its borders.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God I wish all those codices weren't burned. Or even that the surviving ones were made of sturdier material. Somehow even with all AI technology I'm not holding my breath for any digital reconstructions of those rotted lumps.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While we're wishing, I kinda wish the Europeans had all died in a horrific shipwreck on the way over.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A miraculous wind like what saved Japan from the Mongol invasions would indeed not have been uncalled-for.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Or just a big dude who raped them all to death and took their money. Either way.

[–] jami@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with your point, but most Mayan cities in the region had been depopulated (not enough water is one theory) hundreds of years before colonization.

Sorry to be that guy.