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> Knowledge from around 3000 bc to 1580 or so just burned If it makes you feel any better, it’s likely a LOT less time that that. They didn’t develop their com
by nopenotthat 3y ago
> Knowledge from around 3000 bc to 1580 or so just burned
If it makes you feel any better, it’s likely a LOT less time that that. They didn’t develop their complex social culture until ~750BC & the earliest sculptural examples of Maya script are ~300BC.
It’s extremely unlikely any books the Spanish burned dated back until then but that’s the likely earliest they would have been.
Still a massive cultural crime & attempted genocide tho
- wongarsu 3y agoActual texts might only span ~1900 years, but if they are anything like European cultures their texts also contain written recordings of oral tradition. That would extend the time window, though with decreased accuracy.