>>18126552
Everything is covered in a layer of limestone dust like it's a volcanic wasteland, everything is dirty and poorly made/constructed, and in general it's sufferingporn rather then a depiction of a functioning urban center.

As far as the village, it's less visually terrible but there's no farms and the people there have never heard of big cities, it's the anarcho-primitivist dsyfunctional eden to the urban-hedonist dysfunctional hellscape that is the big city. Both don't depict coherent Mesoamerican socities. The village pic is also meant to represent the broader sterotype of Mesoamericans being depicted as tribes in jungle villages in general.

Pic is central mexico rather then maya, but the difference between this reconstruction of a small town/large village and apocalypto is palpable


>>18126550
>>18126558
It doesn't need to be a contest. That being said the second anon is being stupid here, Mesoamericans smelted bronze and even then cities like Teotihuacan from before the region had metallurgy, was on par with some of the largest Roman cities in population and a decent amount of it's infrastructure, Tenochtitlan (>>18126502) was also nearly on par with the largest European cities of the time as of Spanish contact, etc.