>>51935864No, if anything Mexico was in a period of political consolidation and technological/social innovation at the time the Spanish showed up: The Aztec and Purepecha empires were expanding, you were seeing increasing political centralization, bronze metallurgy was first starting to take off (though the region had cities, aquaduct systems, and other facets of society well beyond eurasian bronze age civilizations and more on par with classical ones for well over 1000 years already)
