>>716357058
We know plenty about the Aztec, see >>716296657. There's more works written in Nahuatl by Aztec authors that survive today then there are written sources in Greek by Ancient Greek authors, according to some claims I've seen

It's just a lot of the material doesn't have English or even Spanish translations, and much of the ones that do didn't get them until relatively recently, within the past 50-70 years, so they're still in copyright and also often expensive and out of print. Also, most people just don't give a fuck about Mesoamerica and don't bother teaching it, and in turn most people don't know those sources exist

That being said that anon's green text is still iffy, refer to my posts from >>716288502 to >>716289940 and all the ones I did in between

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>>716351389
Taste is subjective but yes, I seriously have to question what's more appealing about dirty colorless huts among a few grey pyramids and people in unga bunga tribal clothing over the near paradisical alien fantasy that actual Mesoamerican aesthetics has?

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>>716287784
See the summary in >>716286931 for a timeline and how different cultures interacted with each other

There wasn't singular "empire" that unified all Maya states together and had top down direct imperial rule, but the "Aztec Empire" didn't unify all Nahua states together and was also more of a hands off hegemony. The Aztec Empire DID unify MORE of Nahua civilization together then any one Maya political network did to Maya civilization, and it was MORE centralized then most Maya networks, but I don't think it's inherently insane to call some of the larger Maya kingdoms "empires". It's certainly not the accepted parlance by Mesoamericanists, though

We also don't know what ethnic group built and were the main denizens of Teotihuacan (but we do know it had ethnic neighborhoods with some Maya, Zapotec, Gulf Coast and West mexican immigrants), but whatever it was, they probably weren't Nahuas

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