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throwaway_7274 3 hours ago

Only four Maya codices survived destruction by the Spanish…

applicative 3 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 3 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.

2 hours ago | parent [-]
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