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Post by Curtis_Louis on Apr 20, 2015 21:57:58 GMT
cahokiamounds.org/Follow the link above. Yes, there is "visual standing history" in the United States that goes back farther than "a couple hundred years". Now, let's get this thread back on topic.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Apr 20, 2015 22:01:48 GMT
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Post by Luka on Apr 20, 2015 22:10:11 GMT
Hm, where pgandy actually lives? Mexico? At least that's what I thought...
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Apr 20, 2015 22:19:11 GMT
Post edited for further "de-railing" and rules violation.
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Apr 20, 2015 22:24:48 GMT
Please keep this thread on topic. Any other violations of rule #5 will result in this thread being locked.
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Post by MOK on Apr 20, 2015 22:49:39 GMT
Even if you're going by the thread's originating post, last I checked, Costa Rica wasn't part of Europe. And the Americas have plenty of surviving ancient monuments - even if we ignore all the famous cities, pyramids, road networks and other stuff in Central and South America. It's just that mainstream culture tends not to count them as "real" history, for various reasons (most of them somewhat odious, it has to be said), even though in academia the attitudes have changed significantly on that point in the last hundred years. A quick and not in any way even remotely exhaustive smattering of monumental pre-colonial sites in North America that I could recall off the top of my head: Poverty PointAcoma PuebloMonk's MoundWatson Brakethe Adena culturethe Hopewell cultureNote that some of those are thousands of years older than the pyramids. And before you say "oh but they're just mounds of dirt"... well, that's what the vast majority of archaeological sites over here are, too. (And a lot of the others are seemingly unremarkable piles of rocks or just particularly interesting buried layers of dirt.) Most of the classical soaring castles and such things you'd typically associate with European history date from more or less the same "couple hundred years" as colonial Americas... give or take a few hundred years. Besides, these are actually quite impressive mounds of dirt, at that, even compared to contemporaneous European mounds of dirt. It's not really the case that America has less "history" than Europe. It's just that our indigenous history is more intact and better publicized, on account of not being completely overrun and purposely erased by foreign invaders (i.e. us, in this case, or at least our ancestors, for what little that matters).
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