• Sergio@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Guatemala is awesome. The countryside is beautiful and the people are descended from one of humanity’s major civilizations, the Mayans.

    I realize OP is only half-serious, but they still come off as really ignorant.

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      12 hours ago

      As someone who is doing a massive research project on the Maya peoples right now, that civilization was technologically way ahead of the game! They had toilets with a sewage system, clean aqueducts and water purification measures, and ball sports a thousand years before the colonizers that fucked em up. A THOUSAND YEARS.

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        9 hours ago

        Not to mention the 200 000 people cities when in Europe a 50k city was considered big