Andrew Schulz

They're all inspired by each other and they all share the same trade routes and everything.

You can kind of look at it all as one civilization broken up by many different cultures and kingdoms and stuff.

So that's sort of what Mesoamerica is.

But the Aztecs probably came from somewhere in the American Southwest.

absolutely yeah i understand your framing now you're like they have done this somebody else is going to do this and this is the history of the world and it doesn't mean it's okay it just is it's the history of particularly the americas nobody the americas colonize each other over and over and over and over and over and over again like just for for for at least 13 000 years that's what was going on the

The first ones were the Clovis culture that came in and they pushed all the pre-Clovis people out and just like took over the Americas.

And then you've got Folsom culture and it goes on and on and on and on and on forever.

And you can just see cultures just disappearing and being swallowed up by other cultures.

I mean, it's just, that's what was going on.

And so the Aztecs, somewhere around the 1100s.

Now I understand why white people love history.

Because you're like, yeah, we're not that bad.

We're just the latest.

I still got to answer your question.

So, well, as a very side note, the reason that Europeans are conquerors and explorers and raiders and everything is because this is a very inhospitable place and it's really, really hard to survive.

In Africa, this is where people sprouted out of the damn ground.

You don't have to do anything to live here.

You can just live.

Right here is where we're supposed to live.

No, I'm sorry.