| ▲ | unitindex 5 hours ago |
| It's a shame how much was lost from some of these civilizations after colonialism. So much cool stuff gone forever. |
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| ▲ | lioeters an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| > We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction. > -- Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (1562) written by Bishop Diego de Landa who hosted mass book burnings |
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| ▲ | applicative 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | kci225 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | While overly confident, your response is not factually correct. Are you familiar with Francisco de Montejo, a Spanish conquistador who burnt innumerable Mayan historical documents etc? Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Montejo | | |
| ▲ | applicative 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The Spaniards can have been as nothing compared to the Mayans themselves. The composition of these codices was at its peak hundreds of years earlier and zero survived the reciprocal annihilation that had not a trace of influence from the Spaniards who were under direct Arab colonial domination that was to last longer than any in the post columbian period. | | |
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| ▲ | throwaway_7274 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Only four Maya codices survived destruction by the Spanish… | | |
| ▲ | applicative 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Exactly zero of what must have been countless thousands of codices, whole limitless libraries, survived the reciprocal destruction of the Mayan polities. | | |
| ▲ | applicative 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | No cultural destruction visited by the Spaniards on the Mayan peoples can hold a candle to the destruction visited, centuries earlier, by the Mayans upon themselves, and from which their spectactular civilization never recovered. | | |
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