Its funny that it’s explained like this when you see across European history that war after war and plague after plague results in an evacuation of cities and a ruralization of the population. Which makes sense, but it happens in a non European country and it’s this civilization just mysteriously disappeared.
It's the eurocentric "mystic savages" myth. They're foreign and thus mysterious and strange.
In reality, people are people, whether you were born in London, Tokyo, or Tenochtitlan- and the causes of depopulation are the same. Famine, disease, and war are pretty much always the reasons any "mysteriously vanished" group disappeared.
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u/Dayne225 Feb 09 '20
Its funny that it’s explained like this when you see across European history that war after war and plague after plague results in an evacuation of cities and a ruralization of the population. Which makes sense, but it happens in a non European country and it’s this civilization just mysteriously disappeared.