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How the Ancient Inca moved 50-80Ton stone blocks is a total mystery.
— Jimmy Corsetti (@BrightInsight6) May 8, 2024
Quarried 2+miles away at the top of a high Mountain, carried across a River, a Valley, and brought to the top of a steep hill.
They somehow accomplished all this without the invention of the wheel! 🤯
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Um it's actually called cocaine and that is racist:
The mayo scientists hate seeing native scholars do their thang:
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They had a writing (or informaron storage) system--Quipu
Quipu could encode alphanumeric data.
Anyway, they knew "about" the wheel, they just didn't use it because mountains and no draft animals.
Ancient people weren't r-slurs, your average zoomoid would immediately die after being dropped off in the neolithic/bronze age world. Everyone seems to think they would be seen as some kind of demigod and lead people if they had a time machine. Nah, they'd soloman islander your butt and steal your shiny shit or the modern person would immediately regress since most people don't know the actual engineering behind modern shit
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They quite literally were, if only for the Flynn effect. Imagine a society were every is as smart as BIPOC today, maybe even slightly dumber
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IMO Flynn effect was only substantial because the industrial revolution fricked people over for a long time. So the rapid gains were a result of better instruction on how to think how they want you to think, and creeping back up to pre-industrial living standards. It's a historical abberation and is now reversing.
Much like the often quoted redditscience of "puberty happens much younger now than in the past"--No it really doesn't, people were generally affected by abysmal living standards during the industrial revolution as compared to agrarian life, along with massive exposure to pollution. The average age was as early if not earlier in preindustrial life and much earlier in Paleolithic life, because people who survived were healthier and ate better. In fact, substantially intellectually disabled people tended to not survive at all.
There's no advantage your average person would have compared to Minoan, Gobleki Tepi person, or Caral Supean or whatever. Heck, your average person is more likely to die if they were transported 5000 years in the past because of modern life preserving dysgenic traits, and I would venture that actual average fluid intelligence and working memory is lower today than 5000 years ago. Back when you had to figure a lot of shit out on your own.
If you couldn't work out a way to keep yourself fed during the drought or the winter, you died. If you couldn't find water, you died.
Gerald Crabtree from Stanford thinks that human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago, I think it's kinda a wash but I like the idea because it makes redditroids at TTTT universities on le /r/badhistory and /r/badscience sneed hard
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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lol bullshit, they didn't even have pottery wheels and those would have been useful even without draft animals.
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There were toys and shit with wheels, they just didn't see it as being anything more than a novelty, plus there are other methods of making pottery such as the Zapotec "wheel" which does the same shit.
Caral Supe didn't use ceramics, anyway, they stored things in gourds. They had an incredibly complex system of irrigation, though. They started building canals around 4700 BC
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you're acting like they got to the same conclusion via a different method or something
in reality they were primitive as frick when we arrived and probably hundreds if not thousands of years away from ever "catching up"
and yes, the lack of effective writing was a huge issue. "oh but they used knots and shit" yeah and it fricking sucked in comparison to writing shit on a stone slab or papyrus (although the chinese, comically, used paper for fans and shit long before they realized you could fricking write on it, at least the egyptians weren't as r-slurred)
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Hoss, of course they were primitive, but their technology was pretty good for 6000 years ago.
If I take a population of midwit Redditroids but fail to teach them to read or write or ever let them see other technology and dump them off in a littoral desert between the ocean and the second largest mountains on earth, I imagine I would come back after 5 years to find they've all died of exposure, not that they have built some cool temples or domesticated sweet potatoes or corn.
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I'm not arguing that redditors are smart so I don't see why you keep bringing them up.
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They're a good cross section of modern midwits.
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Sure but technological progress has never been pushed forward by midwits.
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I FORGET YOU ARE A PERSON OF INCA.
Can you get me pure cocaine plz?
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