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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Sweety, the Mayans were long gone before columbus got there.
Also, it was Cortez who met the Aztecs... the mayans died out long before.
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Spanish conquest of Yucatán
I highly recommend watching
Apocalypto.
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Originally Posted by Tenchu
The lesson is no civilization lasts for forever. Even the aboriginies. They didn't have a civilization, actually. It was a group of not connected tribes. You may think of the white painted black man with the didge blown out a kookaburra tune and chuckin a boomorang, but actually that was a very small population that was isolated from the other small populations.
Simply; no one ever thought to try anything new. There is no other explanation for it.
They never managed to assume prosperity and there for had no time to flourish.
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But... why do you assume that prospery means “wealth in material goods"? Because that is what mainly distinguishes us from them. They know there's more to the world but they like the life they're living. They know they could have a "more decent" life, but maybe they're just happy doing their own thing and are not willing to prosper. They have had contact with "more developed" civilizations yet they choose to stay the way they are. Again, this doesn't make them mentally deficient, they just have a different way of going about life, which -in my opinion- is as respectable as any other.