9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The History of the Americas
The afro erasion land mass is just about exactly twice the size of the combined continents of the americas. This larger habitable area, along with the extra tens of thousands of years that people had lived there, meant that the population in the old world was much higher. By contrast, china alone had surpassed a hundred and forty million by the year 12 hundred,. A century before the aztecs had even arrived in the valley of mexico. The first pottery in mexico would not begin for another two and a half thousand years. High carbon steel was invented in south india in the sixth century b c and exported around the old world. It would never be invented
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