Yeah this is like the 'stolen wealth' shit. Gold meant nothing to the animal tribes of Central America. It has no actual intrinsic value, it only has value in an economy that can ascribe and translate worth, and then turn that worth into some kind of labor.
Hold on, The Inca and Maya and Aztecs all loved gold. They had very good metallurgry, but very little accessible iron. They (The Inca, at the very least) made do with very good alloys of silver, copper, tin, gold etc. Their bronzes were phenomenal for the time. What is strange to me is that they did very little oceanic exploration, considering the abundance of suitable timber.
Yeah this is like the 'stolen wealth' shit. Gold meant nothing to the animal tribes of Central America. It has no actual intrinsic value, it only has value in an economy that can ascribe and translate worth, and then turn that worth into some kind of labor.
Yep. There's a difference between being wealthy and simply having claim to a resource rich territory.
Hold on, The Inca and Maya and Aztecs all loved gold. They had very good metallurgry, but very little accessible iron. They (The Inca, at the very least) made do with very good alloys of silver, copper, tin, gold etc. Their bronzes were phenomenal for the time. What is strange to me is that they did very little oceanic exploration, considering the abundance of suitable timber.