"WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, Culture

Explaining Native Mexican Civilization


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The once-mighty Maya civilization—with populations LARGER than today's Yucatan—faced apocalyptic collapse in the 10th century. As unprecedented drought persisted, desperate nobles demanded increasingly extreme blood sacrifices while peasants abandoned a system clearly abandoned by the gods. The priests, whose calendar had predicted this cycle of rise and fall, watched helplessly as city-states waged total wars of annihilation. A haunting glimpse into what civilizational collapse truly looks like.


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Bibliography:


Fire and Blood by Fehrenbach

Epic Mexico by Rugely
Rise of the West by McNeil
1491 by Mann
Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
A History of Latin America by Hubert Herring
Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu
Empires of the Atlantic World by Elliot
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas by Hagen
Nine Nations of North America by Garreau
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Decline of the West by Spengler
Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
The Soul of India by Amaury de riencourt
Masks of the Gods volume 1 and 2 by Joseph Camble
The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen
War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley
The Day Before Yesterday Tamim Ansary
Spiral Dynamics by Beck
Sex and Culture by JD Unwin
The Explanation of Ideology by Emmanuel Todd
The 3D Gospel by Georges
Don't Know Much about Mythology by Ken Davis


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