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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

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Pyramids and the Globalization of the New World

i'm really interested in how you think about contingency in history, especially given though you have these two groups of people that are separated by tens of thousands. What things turn out to be contingent, and what things are both of them and up doing? You know, what i found really interesting for in the book was both of them develop like pyramids, right? Like this structure. Who would have hougt that just li within ourg extended venotype or something.? Ahut, that's also geometry. If there's only a certain limited number of ways you can pile up stone blocks,. And pyramids are, certainly, are, certainly one of them.

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