  %c3%a1rm%c3%a1n%e2%80%93gabrielli_d iagram ever hear of this diagram? i'm joining in medias res - haven't bothered to scroll up - but it seems as though perhaps there's some unfilled hole in the gvk diagram that might be just the thing for this situation. that is, there might be some novel, or at least relatively unused, mode of transportation that's suitable - something that's energy-efficient and can carry large payloads, rather like a ship, but which can disregard difficult terrain/sea ice and other such obstacles.   it wasn't just the inca. i'm no soft-headed moralist, and i don't regret what happened to e.g. the mesoamericans, but let's give credit where it's due; the amerindians had some quite remarkable accomplishments. leaving aside the inca, they built many remarkable monuments, had complex and well-ordered societies, were quite competent farmers, made many beautiful objects in gold, etc. the maya independently developed positional notation for numbers, had a zero, and had quite sophisticated astronomy. even the wild savage ones were at least very tough opponents militarily. amerindians are incomparably superior to niggers. the red man may have been a savage, but he was a man. with that said, the society the inca built was a very strange and abhorrent one, and the fact that a hundred-odd spaniards were enough to destroy the aztec empire certainly doesn't reflect any great credit on the latter.
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