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Mexico Before Europeans

(and before the Aztecs)

According to David Graeber in The Dawn of Everything, this was due to an uprising that eliminated the inequalities forced down by the elites and ushered in a much more egalitarian period in Teotihuacan history, which lasted until the 700s as it continued decaying. The Toltecs are perhaps the most debated subject in Mesoamerican history and archeology: They are described by the Aztecs as creators of high culture and a utopian civilization from ~AD 700-1100, but experts don’t know whether they actually existed or they were mythical! They just started somewhat later and developed more slowly, which makes sense given Jared Diamond’s hypothesis that Eurasia had many more lands and peoples to mix, compete, and share technologies, which made it evolve faster.

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