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What you are getting at is that Rome had a more advanced and intelligent civilization.

Nobody wants to admit that all cultures past and present are not the same.

The Maya were more advanced in some ways, the Romans others.

What nobody wants to admit is what used to be common knowledge in the 90's: cultures are relative, not the same.

In the 90s the same people who today refuse to admit the Mayans were, on the whole, less advanced than the Romans were 100%, absolutely, no-contest foaming at the mouth to lynch Samuel Huntington for being an unrepentant racist, I mean, for releasing "Clash of Civilizations"

Huntington's work sucks, not totally sure of your point.

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