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So, yes: Virtually all Mesoamerican socities didn't have Bronze Working, since it was only invented in the region right before Europeans showed up, but that doesn't mean that they were """"""stone age""""" in terms of other technologies or social developments: In terms of shit like urbanism, political complexity, warfare, waterworks technology, the arts, mathmatics, etc; prety much any Mesoamerican group even 1500 years prior to the Aztec would have been at least comparable to Bronze age civilizations, in many respects more on par with Iron Age or classical ones; while the Aztec, Teotihuacan, etc would have been on AVERAGE comparable to Classical civilizations like Greece or Persia, and on par with or beyond contemporary 16th century europe in a few ways
That's still them overall being behind the rest of the world by a mileennia or so, yes; but you need to consider that humans didn't even enter the Americas till much later; and relative to when civilization first pops up in the area (1400 BC), them beying around Classical Anitquity level when euros showed up fits the speed of progression you see in Eurasia (around 3000 years between Sumer and classical Greece). Not to mention that much of the technological and social innovation you see in Eurasia came about as a result of competition and exchange between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Mesoamerica had no other direct contact with other cradles of civilization. It had to invent everything on it's own. And it had no beasts of burden, which is a gigantic disadvantage. Relative to when Civilization first started
If you want to shit on Mesoamerica for being behind a bit, consider that by the time Japan transitioned from Tribal socities to cities, Mesoamerica had already done so around 1000-1500 years earlier, AND Japan had the benefit of having trade and contact with China to help them along
So what's Japan's excuse?
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