Lost cities and Civilizations

Why does it have to be a picture? I'm pissed that Mexico city filled in the canals of the Aztecs and made it all 3rd world shit.

>>1799956
I always wondered, when did the fascination with Babylon start? Was it the Bible when the Jews got exiled there and spent 60 years butthurting and bitching about everything Babylonian? Because comparatively it's pretty irrelevant to Sumer or Akkad.

>>1799973
>Aztecs not 3rd world to begin with

Please

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the aztec capital, Tenochtitlan

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City of Cahokia in what is now the USA.

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>>1799980
The conquerors were pretty amazed when they got to see Tenochtitlan:

"When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantments (...) on account of the great towers and cues and buildings rising from the water, and all built of masonry. And some of our soldiers even asked whether the things that we saw were not a dream? (...) I do not know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about.
—Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain

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Nan Madol, city island made by polynesians

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nan madol

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comfy aztec chinampa with view of the main temple

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>>1800002
How does having huge buildings make something not 3rd world? See pic.

>>1799980
Yes, it was well known from the Bible and from Greek historians, whereas we knew virtually nothing of Sumer or Akkadians until the 19th century.

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"This great city of Tenochtitlán is built on the salt lake, and no matter by what road you travel there are two leagues from the main body of the city to the mainland. There are four artificial causeways leading to it, and each is as wide as two cavalry lances. The city itself is as big as Seville or Córdoba. The main streets are very wide and very straight; some of these are on the land, but the rest and all the smaller ones are half on land, half canals where they paddle their canoes. All the streets have openings in places so that the water may pass from one canal to another. Over all these openings, and some of them are very wide, there are bridges. . . . There are, in all districts of this great city, many temples or houses for their idols. They are all very beautiful buildings."

Hernán Cortés

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The olmec civilization

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Cartague

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>>1799956
Completely forgotten

Nuragics

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Athens

>>1800002
Tenochtitlan just keeps getting more and more crazy with each artistic depiction. From what i heard it was nothing like this, it was just a normal town with some great temples and causeways across shallow water. Not some kind of city literally built on water.

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>>1801483
dude, more than half the thread is "viva la raza" shit

just let him have it so he doesn't complain about "muh conquistador genocide"

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>>1799956
Memphis.

Ancient Egyptian cities must have looked magnificent in their prime.

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>>1799956
Alexander the Great enters Babylon

>>1800009
It was the Micronesians you mong

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Celtic City

>>1801507
>>1801483
You know the Spanish explorers said it made Vennis look like a shithole right? It looked 1000x better and more advanced than any city in the 21 century.

>>1800009
>>1800012
>Nan Madol;
>Nan Yanoi;
I get it now;

>>1801570
source?

>>1800042
Are we sure about Akkad? Because besides being the first real empire in history, it left some monumental cultural legacy, like even 1000 years after Sargon died Akkadian was used as a lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. Egyptian pharaohs wrote diplomatic correspondence in Akkadian, for example.

>>1801483
>From what i heard

Please, do share where you heard that.

>>1801570
The conquistadors who saw it were largely colonial bydlos and criminals, they never saw Venice. The only really remarkable thing about Tenochtitlan was the fact it was on a lake.

Anyway, wasn't Teotihuacan more impressive?

>>1801507
> Not knowing that the city itself was builded by black africans.

The entire aztec elite was black, man.

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>>1799956

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>>1800081

>>1801693
wikipedia
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/WE_WUZ_KINGZ_AN_SHEIT