Re:New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés T...
by VHRanger on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:13AM
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Right, but the scale is entirely different.
The Conquistadors actively tried to memory-hole Aztec/Maya culture post conquest by burning all their written content.
If you break the oral tradition by dispersing groups and you burn written records, you can wipe a culture from history. Conquistadors didn't succeed at this, but they very well tried.
The Conquistadors actively tried to memory-hole Aztec/Maya culture post conquest by burning all their written content.
If you break the oral tradition by dispersing groups and you burn written records, you can wipe a culture from history. Conquistadors didn't succeed at this, but they very well tried.