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		dmitriid on Dec 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” Somehow "all available documentation about medieval France" somehow ended up being "oh, we don't know exactly, a lot is guesswork". And that's France. What about Medieval Africa? The Americas? Oh, we mostly burned that documentation because "it wasn't important". Right?

gumby on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

My understanding is that the jesuits burned the mesoamerican literature because they thought it was dangerous to their reign, not harmless. An appalling crime.

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