Tamil Origins

 

Well, there are similarities in the architecture and techniques of all people in the planet; after all we are all humans and the same ideas develop everywhere. For example, Inca walls and Easter Island stone works have a superficial similarity. But that does not mean someone learn from the other at all.

 

There are similarities between some of the civilizations in the Americas and India, because there are problems that has to be solved and humans invent the same things once and once again. Some that are well known are: the use of cotton, similarities of patoli and backgammon, certain "rococco" style in architecture, the invention of zero, monumental buildings, etc. Also, in cosmological ideas could exist more than one coincidence. But there are also many differences.

 

In physical aspect, certain Native American peoples have some East Indian look.

 

The Inca empire, for instance, was a practical minded society, closely in mentality to the Romans than to the Indian methapysics. Aztecs were a brutal society that enjoy poetry, something difficult to explain to the oriental people.

 

What you had in the America it was a different world, fascinating by itself.

 

Pinguin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do you get that Paul ?

 

I don't believe in UFOs nor in transoceanic contacts.

 

I believe American Indians developed theirs civilizations from scratch.

 

Because they were quite intelligent people. They were as intelligent like anyone else because they were human beings.

 

And humans beings, under certain economical conditions, create civilizations. Is just part of human nature. That's all.

 

No fantasy is needed to explain that,

 

Omar

 

 

 

 

Thanks Jams

 

Well, the Aztecs belong to the families of people and civilizations known as Mesoamericans, and they come from pre-Olmec times. How old are those cultures? I guess at least from 1500 BC, but the studies are still going on.

The Peruvian cultures are older. They exist at least from the times of Caral, 3500 BC.

 

Aztecs and Incas were newcommers in the pre-Columbian universe at the time of the Conquist. Theirs origins are from the 13th and 14th centuries A.D., but theirs civilizations were built in the olders cultures of Mesoamerica and Peru, respectively.

 

There is a cultural continuity in all those Amerindian civilizations that is wonderful, and I guess if people knew about them all the "mysteries" about the Americas would vanish.

 

The reward for studying Amerindian cultures come from comparative history. At doing so, one realize what is the human species as a whole and its capability to develop civilizations, arts and technology.

 

Thanks and Best Regards,

 

Omar Vega

 

 

Could you explain that?