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Ah, yeah. The Mayans of course had a great civilizations but many of the ways by which one would judge what is civilized were common practice through out the Americas. For example us Native people bathed DAILY, Europeans did not. We had bathtubs, made of parflech. We brushed our teeth daily with a twig that has properties that clean the teeth, just have to pick it and fray the ends....many Europeans did not. We did not walk around in lice infected wigs. We had advanced forms of government and in fact the USA style of government is based on the Iroqouis Confederacy style of government. Most of the worlds food is thanks to the genetic engineering of the food supply of Native agricultural Nations. Need I go on?

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