The Mayans were pretty good timekeepers too. That didn’t preclude them from practicing human sacrifice. Didn’t want to totally discount Native American civilization.
“Didn’t want to totally discount Native American civilization.”
I think that “civilization” is a misnomer. Not your fault, it has been adopted by anthropologists and sociologists to apply to every manner of savagery as they re-write the history of the World to their revisionist views. One would never know that most of the man caused extinction of animals on this continent was at the hands of Native Americans. Millions of Bison carcasses were strewn over North America with one or two legs missing and the rest to be eaten by scavengers when the NA enjoyed a snack and left the rest on the ground. I guess you could say I’m not a fan.
To me, a civilization needs to be something more than a tribe.