From ChatGPT:
Several Indigenous civilizations in the Americas had their written records deliberately destroyed, while others relied heavily on oral knowledge that disappeared when communities were decimated. Here’s a clear breakdown of both types:
Civilizations Whose Records Were Intentionally Destroyed
Aztec (Mexica) Empire
Maya Civilization
Mixtec Civilization
Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu)
Taíno (Caribbean)
Muisca (Colombia)
Civilizations Whose Knowledge Faded With Their Communities
These relied heavily on oral traditions or fragile local materials. When communities were devastated by disease, enslavement, and forced assimilation, their knowledge systems could not survive intact.
Mississippian Cultures (e.g., Cahokia)
Ancestral Puebloans, Hohokam, Mogollon
Wari, Tiwanaku (pre-Inca Andes)
Nahua, Zapotec, Purepecha, and many others
These groups had writing or semi-writing systems, but much of what we know today survives only in fragments because:
The Scale of Loss
Across the Americas, scholars estimate:
It truly was a civilizational-scale knowledge collapse—yet also a story of survival, because many Indigenous peoples continue to preserve, revive, and rebuild these traditions today.
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Wouldn’t this be as easy to break as to point a camera at a screen playing whatever you want?
Perhaps not with light field cameras. But then you could probably tamper with the hardware somehow.
This wouldn’t work. Is as essy to break as to point a camera at a screen playing what you want. Boom.
Perhaps with light field cameras. But then you could probably tamper with the hardware somehow.