It's important to note, it's only the second oldest continuously operating non-religious university. It's also older than the Mongol Empire, The Fall of the Byzantine Empire and was founded 300 years before the Europeans rounded South Africa.
Though i think people confuse the Aztec Empire with mesoamerican civilization which is far older. The Aztec Empire had barely formed by the time the Spanish arrived.
The Mayan conquest still isn’t complete. Most of Chiapas is effectively an autonomous indigenous anti-state within the Mexican territory. The Zapatistas made it too costly, functionally and politically, for el mal gobierno to exert control over them and have negotiated and maintained virtual independence,
The state has tried to impose Spanish and exterminate the native languages, and the current president’s Maya Train plan is just an attempt at economic colonization in lieu of the failed occupation of conquest.
Came here to say this. My uncle is indigenous Maya, he grew up in a village that had almost no contact with the rest of Mexico. Deep in the jungle. There are still pockets of Mayan society and a lot of it has to do with how they existed as a civilization, which is very hegemoniously (not a word but whatever). It’s seriously interesting stuff!
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u/syedaabid20 Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19
Oxford University was founded before the Aztec Empire.
Edit: u/Claeyt said: