[nobody9999]

>They were fragmented and smaller than the Aztec empire.

So what? Portugal was smaller than the Aztec Empire too. As was the Netherlands. And England. Should we pooh pooh them as unimportant as well?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_peoples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples

And many others.

Just because they had brown skin and often didn't engage in wholesale slaughter doesn't make them unimportant -- or not political entities.

[triceratops]

You're putting words in my mouth. I don't see the point in continuing this conversation.

[nobody9999]

>You're putting words in my mouth.

Are you sure you responded to the right comment?

>don't see the point in continuing this conversation.

Works for me.