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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 2304138" data-attributes="member: 5656">I recall a book where this work was expanded. While I don´t know if it´s already discredited or not, nor care if it´s, there were explanation for several of the rebuttals presented here. I post them for our common enlightenment:That´s exactly the article´s point. You don´t take the pain, work, and reduced investment rate to grow food on the water if you don´t have to feed a enormous population. The Aztects reached the point where their technology didn´t them room to grow.Exporting from Peru to Mexico in a preindustrial age? Not likely. If you say that they could have adopted themselves the llama and the alpaca, maybe we could ask ourselves why there are not llamas and alpacas in Mexico: because maybe they can´t live there, for whatever reason.They started wars all the time,as the article says. And actually, wars are not a very good long term way to reduce population. Women are quite able to, er, refill the gap in a single generation. It´s true that turkeys, chickens and other birds can make true miracles of transubstantiation of plants into meat, but they have a fundamental flaw: they eat grains. You can´t feed them anything that you couldn´t eat. Feeding turkeys for food is a waste of food. Other cultures had anmals like the pig in China, that were feed with waste and scraps of vegetables, and the cow in other cultures (cows eat grass)I find that as abhorrent as you do, but after living for decades under the threat of nuclear annihilation sometimes I doubt our right to look the Aztecs with disdain. Think on the irrationality of having that sword over our heads, ready to wipe the life out of the earth, and how we arrived atit through a perfectly reasonable path of technological, political and social reasons.</blockquote>

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