>>716330829
cont:

>>716288683
see
>>716289940
>>716293341
They sacrificed 100s to 1000s a year, not millions. They also had wheels and axels, see pic, they just (probably) never used it for transportation since

A: no draft animals

B: Most of the terrain is mountain ranges/valleys or jungles and swamps

C: wheras in Eurasia metallurgy developed alongside urbanism/civilization (and therefore civil infrastructure and craft production was set up around using metals), and wheel and utilitarian metallurgy tech enabled each other (early wheels needed metal supports and drove metallurgical innovations, which in turn enabled more complex wheels which could be used for things like wheelbarrows), in Mesoamerica you had civilization, cities, etc develop way, way before metallurgy:

By the time even smelting of soft metals becomes a thing in Mesoamerica, 2000ish years after the region's first cities, you already had cities like Teotihuacan which was one of the largest cities in the world at the time, impressive even by Roman standards; and bronze smelting doesn't show up for another 1000 years after that, only a few centuries before European contact. They simply never had a big incentive to develop utilitarian metallurgy since they had urban socities without it, and without ututlitarian metallurgy to act as supports for wheels and without draft animals to pull carts, wheels weren't that incentivized either.

>>716315707
I forgot this game existed desu, didn't impress me when I did see it tho

33/33 for now, if the thread hasn't 404'd when I have time later I can try to pop back in

later anons