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80 sats \ 6 replies \ @endothermicdev 20h \ parent \ on: Indigenous American Nations, 16th century history charts_and_maps

I was wondering the same. It must have been quite the effort to recreate from historical documents and accounts.

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69 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 9h
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44 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h

Without written language, how accurate do you think hundreds of years of history would be after going through an apocalyptic population collapse?

Many American cultures were lost entirely. Who would be representing them in this graphic?

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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 6h

Without written records, the only viable way I know is oral knowledge and artifacts. Cultures that disappeared without leaving records are gone forever, their knowledge is lost.

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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h

Right, but we know of some from archeological finds.

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168 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 20h

The big issue is that disease wiped out 90%+ of those populations, so later visitors really couldn't even learn what had been there.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 19h

small pox, influenza and covid-19

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