Anonymous #1 said:
Anonymous #5 said: Mayans were advanced FOR THEIR TIME. They were able to predict solar events without telescopes, which doesn't make them more advanced than we are today. A lot of ancient cultures were "surprisingly advanced" in one way or another.
Back then, people had more time to look up at the stars and make up stories about them or figure out their movements.
Since you guys think youre so goddamn smart think about this. If they were able to predict solar cycles more accurately then, than we can now, How exactly were they not more advanced than us? I think youre confusing being civilized with being advanced. On the same scale we would be much further along(technology wise) if we were as advanced in our time as they were in theirs. It says a lot about what's wrong with man today.
They were able to predict them more accurately then than we can now? Bullshit. We can do the same things, if not more. The significance is that they were able to do similar things that we can now, but without computers or telescopes - just math and observation.
Generation upon generation of observations allowed them to learn and thus predict solar cycles - what takes us 30 minutes in the modern age took them centuries to figure out. There are patterns in Islamic art that are complex and boggle the mathematician's mind, but that doesnt make them more advanced than we are today.
Pretty much all civilizations were able to detect and predict celestial movements. Wikipedia "astrological age", "mayan long count calendar" and as well as "hindu chronology" and you will see most of the dates match up.
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