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« Reply #285 on: January 26, 2023, 06:39:46 PM »

False. The Aztecs had no books.

You're half right. The Aztecs had great libraries of books til the Spanish burned them, but I did make that book up
Dear- no. The Aztecs did not have paper.
They did not have libraries on paper. Ever.

I don't think they had a fully evolved way of writing down language and relied on phonetic symbology. 
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« Reply #286 on: January 26, 2023, 06:55:18 PM »

The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language that relied on symbols rather than letters, and apparently had tens or hundreds of thousands of bound books in the libraries of their schools and elsewhere. Ever want to read something to tear your soul, find the account by a Spanish Franciscan of the Aztecs' reactions when the Inquisition gathered generations of books into heaps and set them on fire. Apparently some who looked on at this erasing of their cultural knowledge died of cardiac-related shock at witnessing this, and the Franciscan described the wails of grief as carrying for miles. I would rate that among the gravest atrocities in history, and a loss on a level with the Alexandrian library, yet it tends to fall into the category of the little known, as it was the conquering Spaniards who wrote the history of those times.
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« Reply #287 on: January 26, 2023, 08:14:01 PM »

The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language that relied on symbols rather than letters, and apparently had tens or hundreds of thousands of bound books in the libraries of their schools and elsewhere. Ever want to read something to tear your soul, find the account by a Spanish Franciscan of the Aztecs' reactions when the Inquisition gathered generations of books into heaps and set them on fire. Apparently some who looked on at this erasing of their cultural knowledge died of cardiac-related shock at witnessing this, and the Franciscan described the wails of grief as carrying for miles. I would rate that among the gravest atrocities in history, and a loss on a level with the Alexandrian library, yet it tends to fall into the category of the little known, as it was the conquering Spaniards who wrote the history of those times.

I did not know this!  Now I am going to have to look it up.
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« Reply #288 on: January 26, 2023, 08:20:03 PM »

The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language that relied on symbols rather than letters, and apparently had tens or hundreds of thousands of bound books in the libraries of their schools and elsewhere. Ever want to read something to tear your soul, find the account by a Spanish Franciscan of the Aztecs' reactions when the Inquisition gathered generations of books into heaps and set them on fire. Apparently some who looked on at this erasing of their cultural knowledge died of cardiac-related shock at witnessing this, and the Franciscan described the wails of grief as carrying for miles. I would rate that among the gravest atrocities in history, and a loss on a level with the Alexandrian library, yet it tends to fall into the category of the little known, as it was the conquering Spaniards who wrote the history of those times.

I did not know this!  Now I am going to have to look it up.

Please do! 

Anyone read the novel AZTEC (1980) BY Gary Jennings? 
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« Reply #289 on: January 26, 2023, 09:58:38 PM »

Yes! Aztec was one of the best historical novels I have ever read.  Thumbup
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« Reply #290 on: January 26, 2023, 10:47:29 PM »

The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language ...

Without knowledge of the spoken language it would have been difficult to understand the Aztec "written" language which relied on phonetics. 
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« Reply #291 on: January 26, 2023, 10:49:56 PM »

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.

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« Reply #292 on: January 27, 2023, 12:11:58 AM »

True!  He constantly ridiculed the "meat eaters" in the Nazi high command.
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« Reply #293 on: January 27, 2023, 12:26:49 AM »

The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language ...

Without knowledge of the spoken language it would have been difficult to understand the Aztec "written" language which relied on phonetics. 
I used to wonder how linguists reconstructed the sound of dead languages but I finally looked into it a few years ago, and the answer was worth seeking out.
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« Reply #294 on: January 27, 2023, 09:46:51 AM »

True!  He constantly ridiculed the "meat eaters" in the Nazi high command.

Your the man!  Thumbup
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« Reply #295 on: January 27, 2023, 09:50:45 AM »

The Appalachian Trail might soon be expanding into Alabama.
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« Reply #296 on: January 27, 2023, 10:00:36 AM »

Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?
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« Reply #297 on: January 27, 2023, 11:51:30 AM »

Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?


George Harrison.

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« Reply #298 on: January 27, 2023, 01:27:10 PM »

Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?

It seems to me a matter of opinion.  JOHN LENNON was the superior songwriter in my opinion. 
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« Reply #299 on: January 27, 2023, 01:34:51 PM »

Speaking of THE BEATLES, who wrote the song "Helter Skelter" credited to LENNON / McCARTNEY?
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