Mesoamerica

>brown people build lots of triangles. Dont question it.

They were on the other side of the world, itd make sense that they would develop differently desu

questioning brown people and triangles, how come egyptians also fucking loved Pyramids and Indonesians, but the Chinese and Romans never got around to it?

Triangles are the easiest kind of structure to build.

All the material has to do is support its own weight and not roll downhill.

Of course, they have very little interior space, which is why they're usually used for tombs.

It's an evolution of the practice of burial mounds.

Not that impressive to be honest.

Aesthetically speaking, Mesoamerican cities were superior looking,

You shut your whore mouth.

I'm a fedora athiest, but gothic architecture looks fucking fine.

Every kind of architecture is wonderful lads.

Still though, even in their early days, the Romans or the Chinese NEVER built any triangles, while the Aztecs still kept building them despite having hydraulic systems so complex that the Conquistadors thought they were in heaven

>he said, shortly before Veeky Forums bombarded him with pictures of ugly buildings

Presumably pyramids are an extension of mound building funerary culture.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pyramids

The Chinks did this a little bit, but didn't bring it to the level the Egyptians did.

The Romans never seem to have had very elaborate burial customs, so they concentrated on copying Greek temples.

I dont think they are ugly

>"(About Montezuma) He possessed out of the city as well as within, numerous villas, each of which had its peculiar sources of amusement, and all were constructed in the best possible manner for the use of a great prince and lord. Within the city his palaces were so wonderful that it is hardly possible to describe their beauty and extent ; I can only say that in Spain there is nothing equal to them."

- Cortez to Charles V

I think a roman senator said it best
>while the rest of the world builds its frivolities we build actually useful shit (aqueducts, roads)

They also had aqueducts and roads.

"We actually built useful shit" - A Roman Senator

so why doesn't all these large buildings still stand? Isn't mexico city at roughly the same place as the aztec capital?

If this isn't bait you should seriously consider suicide, you're a disgrace to whichever race you belong to

and where is the rome now boy? dead and forgotten, while pyramids and other shit like that are still standing strong and will be here for thousands of years making the new generations still jelly

>dead and forgotten

Have you never seen Roman aqueducts before?
Thousand year old arches n shit are far more impressive than a big pile of stones

yes, let's bring in water with dirty uncovered rocks and let's drink it from fucking lead cups while we are at it

epic memeing juan

Rome is all piles of rocks too if you are going to look at it that way. You make it sound as though aqueducts, hydraulic engineering and columns didn't exist. Hell the Maya had one of the earliest suspension bridges built in the 7th century. They also had the corbel arch.

>Chinese never got around to it
That's not exactly true.
There were plenty of burial mounds with a basic triangle design, just none near the scale of Egypt or the Americas.
There's also the white pyramid of Xian myth but I'm not sure if that was proven fake or not. It always sounded like BS to me.

Rome had an empire that hit 3 continents. The maya/aztec occupied a small part of mexico.

If you're gonna compare any Amerindian civ to Rome it should be the Inca, because of their vast empire and road network.