Hey, this is what I have found out the last few days… I’m gonna’ lay it all out for yas so you don’t have to imagine shit… cool? With bad grammar and typos everywhere… no shit!
I found out the Mayans used base 20 for the mathematics with a placeholder for zero. I already knew that the Mesopotamians used base 60 with you see today at 360 degrees, 60 minutes in an hour 60 seconds etc.
In 1519 when the iron age people met the stone age people, the westerners did not have a placeholder for zero so the Mayan books were heresy and had to be burned. It wasn’t until 1582 when Pope Gregory made the new calendar official did the zero became accepted officially by the church... that’s kinda interesting to me…
Then the Aztecs who called themselves Mexica were a bunch of assholes that always caused problems for everybody around them. So, they kept getting kicked the fuck out of the area… the name Aztek comes from an area in the north (100 miles, 500 miles? There is some evidence the roots of their language come from the area of the south-west states), the name refers to people from that area. where ever that is... 1.5 million speakers of their language today.
Eventually, they got set up pretty good being mercenaries for one of the bigger kings, who got even bigger. And not being an asshole kinda guy the king hands over his daughter to marry the Aztec leader… who immediately has her sacrificed, pissing the king off like you can’t even imagine. yeah! No shit!
So, the Aztecs haul ass to a lake and build a fort out in the middle. And the Aztecs grow and multiply until they are running everything, like 150K peeps living on the lake. Burning through 200K? sacrifices a year? I think this all happens in like 200 years? these guys worshipped a war god. think Sparta with the Aztecs.
Just as the Aztecs were stepping up to dominate everything the westerners showed up, ending it all…
You guys find out any cool shit about the Russians?