Legitimate question: what resources would there have been in the Caribbean or the Gulf Coast that Mayans needed? Most metals and precious minerals would have come from the Mexican highlands. The Gulf Coast is very mineral poor. Does the Caribbean even have anything worth exploiting, in terms of natural resources?
The legacy of the Taino and Carib peoples endures, however, in elements of boat design and in the names we use for these types of craft: canoe (Taino canoa) and pirogue (Carib piragua). The watercraft that plied the waterways of The Mexican gulf
I respect that they had knowledge of traversing the seas in between islands and were competent seamen, but their boats and canoes did not put them on par with the triremes and ships of the classic Mediterranean. A seafaring civilization would have warred using navies and wrested for control of trading routes and lucrative ports.
trading is for civilizations who can't provide for their people with their natural resources
according to texts by Spanish explorers, Caribbean peoples could provide for themselves easily.
They did. An asteroid hit the North American Ice Shelf, causing a global flood and killing off the megafauna, simultaneously annihilating all North and Central American civilization that wasn't on top of a mountain and raising global sea levels by several feet.
The survivors were individual families and maybe a few rediscovered enclaves that failed to retain their former influence from which descended the tribes we now know.
They had extensive knowledge in traversing the sea but they were nowhere as impressive as polynesians. Still rather decent by the standards of the western hemisphere
Injuns on the islands were ooga boogas
Mayans and other Mesoamericans seemed to have no interest in the ocean judging by the fact that just about every single major city in their history was inland
Mesoamerican trading routes have reached up to Mississippian cultures and, if I remember correctly, there's some similar gods and etymology between the Maya and Taino people so there was some seafaring.
But there just really weren't anything interesting as there which is why trade routes rather go through the desert up north.
Sea-faring civilizations needed shit from outside because their lands couldn't support them. There's not a lot of reasons to hop on a boat with the shore riddled with mango trees
Because brown people are stupid.
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holy BASED and repilled imagine reading books about this when the ANSWER IS RIGHT THERE BROWN PEOPLE EAT POOP
nothing worth trading
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Legitimate question: what resources would there have been in the Caribbean or the Gulf Coast that Mayans needed? Most metals and precious minerals would have come from the Mexican highlands. The Gulf Coast is very mineral poor. Does the Caribbean even have anything worth exploiting, in terms of natural resources?
Fertile soil and a spirit of ingenuity
>Does the Caribbean even have anything worth exploiting, in terms of natural resources?
easy access too fish?
Yeah and the Caribbean people fished a lot, so...
If there weren't seafaring peoples, then no one would have been there to greet Columbus at Hispaniola.
>seafaring is the same as settling an island
The legacy of the Taino and Carib peoples endures, however, in elements of boat design and in the names we use for these types of craft: canoe (Taino canoa) and pirogue (Carib piragua). The watercraft that plied the waterways of The Mexican gulf
I respect that they had knowledge of traversing the seas in between islands and were competent seamen, but their boats and canoes did not put them on par with the triremes and ships of the classic Mediterranean. A seafaring civilization would have warred using navies and wrested for control of trading routes and lucrative ports.
Reminds me of some old neonazi /misc/ maymays about how Vikings were the greatest seamen who went all over the world, when Polynesians exist
they had "costal" fairing trade rafts that would use a seasonal change in currents to go from south america to mexico
trading is for civilizations who can't provide for their people with their natural resources
according to texts by Spanish explorers, Caribbean peoples could provide for themselves easily.
Caribbean people traded a lot. The word canoe itself comes from the Taino language.
They did. An asteroid hit the North American Ice Shelf, causing a global flood and killing off the megafauna, simultaneously annihilating all North and Central American civilization that wasn't on top of a mountain and raising global sea levels by several feet.
The survivors were individual families and maybe a few rediscovered enclaves that failed to retain their former influence from which descended the tribes we now know.
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The people of the Caribbeans were seafarers
No civilizations, but there were two seafaring Neolithic people there.
They had extensive knowledge in traversing the sea but they were nowhere as impressive as polynesians. Still rather decent by the standards of the western hemisphere
They killed the majority of the natives there and replaced them with Black folk.
Imagine a Rome centered on that.
Injuns on the islands were ooga boogas
Mayans and other Mesoamericans seemed to have no interest in the ocean judging by the fact that just about every single major city in their history was inland
It is called the Mosquito Coast for a reason.
Too busy cannibalising each other and people are pretty tasty
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>people who make me feel good.... good
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People who shit on the floor and cause a stink are bad, yes.
Mesoamerican trading routes have reached up to Mississippian cultures and, if I remember correctly, there's some similar gods and etymology between the Maya and Taino people so there was some seafaring.
But there just really weren't anything interesting as there which is why trade routes rather go through the desert up north.
Sea-faring civilizations needed shit from outside because their lands couldn't support them. There's not a lot of reasons to hop on a boat with the shore riddled with mango trees
You don't need boats when you can walk on water.