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LimeMime565 t1_iuhlj53 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Human burial grounds and bullets from Spanish guns uncovered at site of last Mayan stronghold in Guatemala by GullyShotta

Yes advanced government and architecture as well as a history spanning possibly thousands of years what dirty dumb savages

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Riimpak t1_iuhrnjc wrote

Advanced how?

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LimeMime565 t1_iuhx9da wrote

They had city states and archived architecture that's lasted almost millennia. Not very different at all from many European states before and during the dark ages

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Artanthos t1_iuig0sq wrote

The Aztec had better sanitation than the Europeans.

In fact, they had better access to potable water than London had until mid-19th century.

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NecroticPustule t1_iuirzpe wrote

Access to potable water < has guns and the ability to cross oceans

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Artanthos t1_iuj1uqs wrote

Ability to kill =/= civilized.

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NecroticPustule t1_iujc79n wrote

Yeah but that doesn't mean anything if your civilisation is gone

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Artanthos t1_iujdrot wrote

The ability to kill does not make a society advanced.

The Aztecs where an an advanced society, but their areas of advancement were not all military.

But apparently the people on Reddit feel that that only thing that defines civilization is the ability to kill.

By that definition, Rome was less civilized than the Germanic tribes that overthrew them.

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