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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by dmitriid on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:39PM (#21767561)
Somehow "all available documentation about medieval France" somehow ended up being "oh, we don't know exactly, a lot is guesswork".

And that's France. What about Medieval Africa? The Americas?

Oh, we mostly burned that documentation because "it wasn't important". Right?

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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by gumby on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:48AM (#21769563)
My understanding is that the jesuits burned the mesoamerican literature because they thought it was dangerous to their reign, not harmless. An appalling crime.
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