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The point about the destruction of Prehispanic books, knowledge, art, etc is also important. This is pretty inarguable and I think the anons here claiming that the idea it was all destroyed is just cope/an excuse to justify their lack of intellectual works is pretty fucking stupid: Spanish sources discuss large royal libraries as well and even explicitly point out that those newly arrived in Mexico from Europe are wrong to assume that the then current condition of Mesoamerican literature was representative of how it was during initial contact and that the mass destruction of native books and sources had an profound impact, and yet despite that that the Mesoamericans would make ideal converts to Christianity because of their intellect, skills etc, saying that they wished Spanish students were as savy

And if we're talking about visual art and architecture rather then intellectual works and literature then there's an even stupid larger amount of examples and Spanish sources praising those. For reference the San Jose shipwreck has over 200 tons of treasure worth over 17 billion dollars today, and there's dozens, if not hundreds of ships that brought material from Mexico to Europe, in some cases much of which was Mesoamerican jewelry, either as is or melted down and picked apart, we have full recorded inventories in some cases

Anyways, back to literature, as I said above, it's not like the libraries likely had written down poems or narrative epics, but we're talking about the destruction of likely thousands of books that held political and tax records, tangential information on myths and religion via divinatory document which often depicted or mentioned those things rather then just being astrology tables, and all of these those in combination probably did serve as mnemonic devices for other sorts of information, histories, narratives etc

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