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Just now after about 1,000 years! Hard-to-believe for sure, but when ancient cities like Teotihuacan, "The City of The Gods" outside Mexico City and the Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, a city that accommodated millions of people at its peak during the 13th century, it's time past due to re-write Euro-centric history. Time to dig deeper to begin to understand all the peoples and cultures that were here before Columbus. In the era we like to call pre-Columbian [1492]
Here in Mesa, Arizona that so-called history, recorded by The Pioneers sent from Salt Lake City, Utah to colonize what was then the Arizona Territory, only goes back to the mid-1850's when The Hohokam, "The People Who Came Before", somehow unexplained just disappeared.
With some exceptions the stories are usually about mysteries and treasures and bloody sacrifices, probably relating to the Spanish Conquistadors' lust for gold and the search for The Seven Cities of El Dorado. Or their mission to spread the gospel of Christianity by converting 'The Indians'.
Indigenous peoples had more than one god in advanced civilizations, in what we now call a Megalopolis
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Europeans could not even imagine existed the advanced civilizations here in The World . . . now we definitely know more: these 3 reports in the last week
Live Science-Mar 5, 2019
Shimmying through a maze of dark tunnels below the Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, archaeologists have rediscovered a ...
National Geographic-Mar 4, 2019
The discovery of the cave system, known as Balamku or “Jaguar God,” was ... between different Mesoamerican cultures, and what was going on in the Maya world ... the (re)discovery of Balamku as a chance to implement a totally new model of ...
National Geographic-Mar 1, 2019
It is the largest defensive system ever discovered in the region, “and possibly in all of the ... civilization that was far more complex and interconnected than most Maya ... Guided by the new high-tech treasure maps, the LiDAR team deployed ...
Archaeologists guided by laser images of a remote region of northern Guatemala have discovered 20-foot-high walls, watchtowers, and other evidence that ancient Maya societies waged large-scale warfare over many years. The finds have upended long-established impressions of a civilization that tamed the jungle and built thriving cities, then declined and disappeared beneath the dense tropical forest.
" . . .As we fill in more of the gaps, I think we’ll continue to realize that Maya civilization was as robust as some of those that are now considered to be the most important civilizations of antiquity . . "
