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>>107309914I'm actually gonna try to rar you up some stuff.
Also since this is /co/, checl out Paul Guinan's Aztec Empire comic, which is an ongoing free online comic accurately detailing the conquest of mexico
>>107310002pretty sure you mean the LIDAR findings I mentioned above. They weren't "found", so much as their suburbs extended way, way further out then we thought
>>107309983People misunderstand that. Archeological stuff from the past 20-30 years have shown that native groups in the Amazon were more then just nomadic hunter gatherer tribes, and practiced agriculture, built mounds and basin systems to trap fish, and had sendentary settlements, but it's not like they were formal goverments living in urban cities or anything (up in what's now the US, though, thgere actually wretre native americans that got to full proto-civilization and early civilization status, like the Misssipsians) like in Mesoamerica, Europe, Asia, the Middle east, and the Andes.
Speaking of the Andes, the Andes are the cradle of civilization the Inca are from down in South America, and would be way closer to the Amazon as such then Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztec, though again, the Amazon cultures aren't like "civilizations" like them or related to the. People tend to group the "Aztec, Maya, and Inca" together but it's a totally arbitrary grouping: As I mention in the image in
>>107309762 , Mesoamerica is way more then just the Aztec and Maya, and the Inca are just one of many Andean civilizations which has it's own long history, and is totally indepedent from Mesoamerica ones.
I'm gonna link a collection of resources when I post the rar for that anon, but the book "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" is a great introduction to the cultures from a variety of parts of the Americas before europeans, and talks about the Amazonian cultures a bit, though the book is many, many years old now and there's been some research since.
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