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I'm not sure anyone would thank Bishop de Landa for burning the entire written work of a thousand year old civilization. Disrupting a cycle of ritualized tortu
by ChainOfFools 5y ago
I'm not sure anyone would thank Bishop de Landa for burning the entire written work of a thousand year old civilization.
Disrupting a cycle of ritualized torture may find some support on humanitarian grounds, but it was no excuse to annihilate the rest of Maya literary culture as well.