Mesoamerica

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>>1607880
>engineering wanders that far exceeded anything of feudal Europe

Nigga please

>>1607880
THE QUETZAL SHALL COME
THE GREEN BIRD SHALL COME

Yeah, stacking bricks in a pile sure exceeds Gothic cathedrals.

Sage for mexishit thread.

>>1607880
Technology and developement aren't linear, senpai. Mesothelioma Americans developed in a way that suited the old world, and you're looking at it with a Western (old world) bias. They never found widespread use for the wheel because there were no domesticated animals to pull carts and shit. Wheels aren't as common when you don't have shit like horses or yaks.

Mesoamerican society developed the way it did as a result of all the factors in their environment; god knows why they built such huge shit. Why did the egyptians build huge shit? Why does anyone build huge shit? To show off their wealth? To be remembered after they are gone?

Theyre civilisation was vastly different than an afroeurasian one but one thing remains the same: brown people build lots of triangles. Dont question it.

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>>1607880
>engineering wanders that far exceeded anything of feudal Europe and ancient Rome

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>>1607880
2/10

>>1607893
>their religious buidlings don't even cast cool forms during equinoxes
>they can't even cast sacred birds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaLRMq8sgYM
>you can't even perform rituals in the water reservoirs located below the structure

depressing desu

>>1607922
>Mesothelioma Americans
Kek'd and checked

Good point though about the variety in societal development. It's not surprising that the two most isolated cradles of civilization developed in ways that we would see as unusual considering how basic technologies tended to be invented only a few times and then spread around.

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>>1607970
almost forgot:

>they weren't even built based on sacred numbers of the calendar

>>1607970
>stacking rocks on each other
>more impressive than creating an actual usable building that thousands of people can use, has a ton of natural light, and is the tallest structure on earth

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>>1607922
>brown people build lots of triangles. Dont question it.

They were on the other side of the world, itd make sense that they would develop differently desu

>>1607922
questioning brown people and triangles, how come egyptians also fucking loved Pyramids and Indonesians, but the Chinese and Romans never got around to it?

>>1607922
>>1608063
>>1608085
Triangles are the easiest kind of structure to build.

All the material has to do is support its own weight and not roll downhill.

Of course, they have very little interior space, which is why they're usually used for tombs.

It's an evolution of the practice of burial mounds.

>>1607893
Not that impressive to be honest.

Aesthetically speaking, Mesoamerican cities were superior looking,

>>1608102
You shut your whore mouth.

I'm a fedora athiest, but gothic architecture looks fucking fine.

>>1608102
>>1608111
Every kind of architecture is wonderful lads.

>>1608100
Still though, even in their early days, the Romans or the Chinese NEVER built any triangles, while the Aztecs still kept building them despite having hydraulic systems so complex that the Conquistadors thought they were in heaven

>>1608118
>he said, shortly before /his/ bombarded him with pictures of ugly buildings

>>1608123
Presumably pyramids are an extension of mound building funerary culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pyramids

The Chinks did this a little bit, but didn't bring it to the level the Egyptians did.

The Romans never seem to have had very elaborate burial customs, so they concentrated on copying Greek temples.

>>1608124
I dont think they are ugly

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>>1607893
>"(About Montezuma) He possessed out of the city as well as within, numerous villas, each of which had its peculiar sources of amusement, and all were constructed in the best possible manner for the use of a great prince and lord. Within the city his palaces were so wonderful that it is hardly possible to describe their beauty and extent ; I can only say that in Spain there is nothing equal to them."

- Cortez to Charles V

>>1607880
I think a roman senator said it best
>while the rest of the world builds its frivolities we build actually useful shit (aqueducts, roads)

>>1608135
They also had aqueducts and roads.

>>1608135
"We actually built useful shit" - A Roman Senator

>>1608133
so why doesn't all these large buildings still stand? Isn't mexico city at roughly the same place as the aztec capital?

>>1608609
If this isn't bait you should seriously consider suicide, you're a disgrace to whichever race you belong to

>>1608135
and where is the rome now boy? dead and forgotten, while pyramids and other shit like that are still standing strong and will be here for thousands of years making the new generations still jelly

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>>1608832
>dead and forgotten

>>1608832
Have you never seen Roman aqueducts before?
Thousand year old arches n shit are far more impressive than a big pile of stones

>>1608863
yes, let's bring in water with dirty uncovered rocks and let's drink it from fucking lead cups while we are at it

>>1608877
epic memeing juan

>>1608863
Rome is all piles of rocks too if you are going to look at it that way. You make it sound as though aqueducts, hydraulic engineering and columns didn't exist. Hell the Maya had one of the earliest suspension bridges built in the 7th century. They also had the corbel arch.

>>1608085
>Chinese never got around to it
That's not exactly true.
There were plenty of burial mounds with a basic triangle design, just none near the scale of Egypt or the Americas.
There's also the white pyramid of Xian myth but I'm not sure if that was proven fake or not. It always sounded like BS to me.

>>1608947
Rome had an empire that hit 3 continents. The maya/aztec occupied a small part of mexico.

>>1608947
If you're gonna compare any Amerindian civ to Rome it should be the Inca, because of their vast empire and road network.