[jazz9k]

What you are getting at is that Rome had a more advanced and intelligent civilization.

Nobody wants to admit that all cultures past and present are not the same.

[Throaway1982]

The Maya were more advanced in some ways, the Romans others.

What nobody wants to admit is what used to be common knowledge in the 90's: cultures are relative, not the same.

[halJordan]

In the 90s the same people who today refuse to admit the Mayans were, on the whole, less advanced than the Romans were 100%, absolutely, no-contest foaming at the mouth to lynch Samuel Huntington for being an unrepentant racist, I mean, for releasing "Clash of Civilizations"

[Throaway1982]

Huntington's work sucks, not totally sure of your point.