Mexico archaeologists find temple to wind god beneath supermarket

This is something that has always fascinated me about Europe, South America, or the middle east. If you piss on a bush in europe, you piss where the ancient romans pissed, you piss where battles raged and civilizations rose and fell for thousands of years, but if you whizz on a bush in north america, all you take a leak on is some place where indians just kinda hung around and fucked for a long time before we came along.

>>89277
The thing about the Americas is, the land you are standing on at any given time could have been the subject of a bitter multi-century war between tribes for centuries before Europeans came. There is little way to know for sure without a time machine.

I conclude that it's hard to take a piss anywhere on this planet where no genocide has taken place

>>89277
Mexico is part of North America.

>>89277
The American continent was the absolute last one to be populated by humans. Development therefore continued as normal after but since it was last, development did not get as far before the invasion of Europe. Europe and the middle East aren't super special snowflake history areas, they just happened to develop first.


Basics. Dumb fuck.

>>89354
>The American continent was the absolute last one to be populated by humans. Development therefore continued as normal after but since it was last, development did not get as far before the invasion of Europe.

I disagree, it wasn’t a simple case of American Indians being the last in line but because there were so few humans in the Western Hemisphere, there was no drive or incentive to advance technologically.

I’m from Michigan and we’re surrounded by the Great Lakes, yet none of the Indians hereabouts ever developed boats larger then canoes.

But then why bother creating large sailing ships, when the Indians just could paddle a birch bark canoe 20 yards out into Lake Huron and scoop up 50 lbs of walleye in 15 mins of tossing a net in the water?

Back when ancient Indians came to the Western Hemisphere, (from both sides) everybody on the planet was a cave man but the lack of population density in the Americas and thus easy access to food and living space, insured that American Indians would _remain_ cave men until the arrival of Europeans, whereas in the heavily populated Old World with it’s continual pressure from neighboring human groups, competition forced humans to advance technologically and culturally if they wanted to survive.

The only American Indians who ever moved beyond cave man status, were the Maya, Aztecs and Inca, who WERE subject to (highly localized) population pressures.

>>89438
Population density doesn't just make advanced societies more necessary; it also makes them a lot easier. When you live with a few hundred people it's a lot harder to support groups of people who are doing things that are not immediately useful, like going through the trial and error of figuring out how to build large ships or carving rocks and stacking them into pyramids, than it is when you live with a few thousand. The more people you have the more powerful your economy is, and the more powerful your economy is the more able you are as a group to support people who are doing things with long term benefits to the group like building and experimenting as opposed to things with short term benefits like hunting and foraging.

It is also true that population density creates necessities that drive innovation, of course, but if that was the only factor in play cities wouldn't arise because simply dispersing would be easier than solving problems related to population density (on the other hand, this is basically what happened to the Maya as far as I know).

>>89265
>"wind" god
> beneath supermarket

Is this the deity that shartmarts worship?