I always desperately want to live in these worlds, especially Aztec or Mayan ones. I wonder what it would really be like, overall better or worse… Not being able to see anything until I got close to it would be a bummer though 😅 (nearsighted)
I mean, worse overall than modernity, without a doubt, even for the elite. We take a lot of things for granted in the modern day - not even getting into some of the, uh, peculiar aspects of the Aztecs that even their neighboring states didn’t like.
On the other hand, it would much better than a number of other regions of the period - I’m reminded of the Spanish visiting Tenochtitlan for the first time and noting that it was more beautiful and better laid-out than the finest city in Europe at the time (generally agreed to be/have been Constantinople/Istanbul)
Yeah for sure. The Aztecs in particular would be a little scary to be part of. But I do honestly wonder if it maybe doesn’t balance out from the perspective of the average citizen. I know it kinda sounds totally insane to even question it, but on the other hand I think their experience of the world was so alien to my own it’s hard to say. Sometimes people are happier in the strangest of circumstances. I am definitely being biased by the visual beauty component, but at the same time that just shows how powerful that component can be. Hmmm
I always desperately want to live in these worlds, especially Aztec or Mayan ones. I wonder what it would really be like, overall better or worse… Not being able to see anything until I got close to it would be a bummer though 😅 (nearsighted)
I mean, worse overall than modernity, without a doubt, even for the elite. We take a lot of things for granted in the modern day - not even getting into some of the, uh, peculiar aspects of the Aztecs that even their neighboring states didn’t like.
On the other hand, it would much better than a number of other regions of the period - I’m reminded of the Spanish visiting Tenochtitlan for the first time and noting that it was more beautiful and better laid-out than the finest city in Europe at the time (generally agreed to be/have been Constantinople/Istanbul)
Yeah for sure. The Aztecs in particular would be a little scary to be part of. But I do honestly wonder if it maybe doesn’t balance out from the perspective of the average citizen. I know it kinda sounds totally insane to even question it, but on the other hand I think their experience of the world was so alien to my own it’s hard to say. Sometimes people are happier in the strangest of circumstances. I am definitely being biased by the visual beauty component, but at the same time that just shows how powerful that component can be. Hmmm