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Re:In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, ... by icebraining on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:43PM (#13189345)
Latin America was home at that time to highly resourceful indigenous peoples, says Alencar Brayner. The Aztecs and the Mayans knew how to work with metals, cultivate land and farm, and preserve artifacts. But the map doesn’t depict these people. Instead, Brazilians are drawn as barbaric cannibals in the midst of butchering and roasting humans.

But the Aztecs and Mayans weren't from Brazil. And the indigenous tribes in Brazil did practice cannibalism and being semi-nomadic, probably had less developed farming and metal technology.

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Re:In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, ... by soneca on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:14PM (#13189979)
Yes, Brasil is very far from Aztecs and Mayans, and very isolated too with the Andes and Amazon.

And there is no evidence that indigineous people around here were só technologic advanced as them.

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