>They were fragmented and smaller than the Aztec empire. So what? Portugal was smaller than the Aztec Empire too. As was the Netherlands. And England. Shou

>They were fragmented and smaller than the Aztec empire. So what? Portugal was smaller than the Aztec Empire too. As was the Netherlands. And England. Should we pooh pooh them as unimportant as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples And many others. Just because they had brown skin and often didn't engage in wholesale slaughter doesn't make them unimportant -- or not political entities.