It's too bad we don't know a lot about the Mayans, Incas and Aztecs

Apocalypto, directed by Mad Mel was pretty awesome but you are correct, there is a dearth of flicks devoted to Pre Columbian Empires in the Americas.

And Post contact the European diseases seem to have wiped out hordes of people due to disease the native peoples were highly vulnerable to. There are probably some great stories to tell there but they simply seem lost to time.

They could make booby traps that still work after hundreds of years.

I think the North American Indians had them beat though. All three of the great American civilizations had despotic royalty and priesthoods. I mean compare them to the Romans who had a republic and a certain amount of individual freedom.

The North American tribes had communal societies, but a since of anarchic freedom.

I'd frankly rather know more about the Cherokee and the Iroquois.

I know that buried somewhere in Mexico or the American Southwest is an Aztec clay pot full of human blood that keeps the sun rising every day. If you spill that pot, the sun will disappear from the sky until it is filled with blood from a human sacrifice again.

Mayans, Incas and Aztecs
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