The Conquistadors actively tried to memory-hole Aztec/Maya culture post conquest by burning all their written content.
If you break the oral tradition by dispersing groups and you burn written records, you can wipe a culture from history. Conquistadors didn't succeed at this, but they very well tried.
The Conquistadors actively tried to memory-hole Aztec/Maya culture post conquest by burning all their written content.
If you break the oral tradition by dispersing groups and you burn written records, you can wipe a culture from history. Conquistadors didn't succeed at this, but they very well tried.