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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5089797" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'll admit my history is not as good as it should be, but, really, you'll never find a time when the Mayans (and the Aztecs) were particularly close in technology simply because the Mayans had no horses.  I've read that, for example, Aztec pottery and glasswares were roughly equal to European levels at the time, because glass doesn't need horses.But no horses stunts development in so many ways.  Agriculture being the HUGE disadvantage.  But, in most other ways as well.  I don't think that, say, having the Vikings sailing south along the coast would have had much of a different result.  Sure, no gunpowder, but, you still have iron weapons and armor.  Crossbows and cavalry would still spell disaster for the Mayans IMO.</blockquote>