I'm digging the South American pics.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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Underappreciated history. I really need to read up more on Pre-Columbian polities myself.
I've made my autistic like love of Aztecs pretty clear by now. Even I can't wrap my head around the idea of basically a vertical empire stretching through multiple biomes.
old world: i cam't farm/live on these gently sloping hills they're too steep and treacherous
south America:
My ancestors: dirt farmers
these dudes:
Tarascan Empire hours!
Yo, the stone work is so perfect that there is no masonry joins and the buildings repeatedly stand up to earthquakes throughout history. Not even the Romans had such masonry.
Drystone vs. mortar masonry is a choice, for the record. Drystone is either less labor intensive (being literal stones stacked together), or much more labor intensive (being stones precisely worked to fit together). Some Greek architecture, for example, is drystone of the latter sort
Mortared masonry is cheap, quick, and easy - just how the Romans liked it.