Ancient Americas: Maya, Aztec, Inka and Beyond

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In AD 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled around the Americas at the same time as looking for a route to the spice wealthy Orient. This used to be a unique moment in world history, akin to an encounter with alien species in our own time. What Columbus, and his successors encountered used to be an unsuspected continent, a New World, full of civilizations strangely different from European societies in their languages, appearances, institutions, religions, architecture and ideas of life and death. From the great empires of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inkas in Peru, to their innumerable prehistoric ancestors, and the mosaic of tribes living in highland valleys and tropical rainforests, the evidence pointed to a phenomenon of human culture which had developed in isolation from the remainder of the world for a minimum of 20,000 years. Pre-Columbian The us represents a singular example of the human genius for creating civilization. Through a stimulating account of the major civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Andes, this book aims not only to give state of the art syntheses of every culture, but also to build a living picture of the fundamentally different nature of indigenous Amerindian societies.
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