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Shorto’s writing is clear and concise without many long rants. Two annoyances so far:
1. It is a history book, you cannot just say “might have been”. It is not egregious, his hypotheticals pertain to small local events. Still annoying, though.
2. In tandem with the former, Shorto sometimes offers too much context that dilutes what the point or paragraph is heading towards.
Hudson’s chapter was great!

Update for my thoughts:
-some illustrations or structures do not appear or are mentioned without former context. For example, an image is “shown below/above” but is not in its respective page. The Hieroglyphic Stairs at Copan are another example. It was mentioned abruptly without being mentioned previously.
-Some terms are not explained, which ruins the flow of reading. Especially the architectural jargon.

Pwetty pictures
It’s interesting seeing the linguistic differences between central mexican societies and the Maya, but it has, understandably, not been mentioned.
Sometimes an artifact is confusingly referenced, with its subject matter seemingly unrelated to the author’s original claim. Bit odd
Appreciating the emphasis on cultural diffusion between the Maya and central Mexico.

Commas galore. An over abundance of abstract descriptions with a serious lack of numbers and quantities. Good storytelling, though.

Fun names. Some details, “huge death pit”, aren’t expanded upon. Also some proper names, titles, or places are be namedropped without context, very annoying and ruins the flow.

Every other sentence is unnecessarily wordy. Hanging Gardens chapter was really good, nonetheless.

King Khufu the 🐐

What are the issues that indigenous folks at the time faced? It’s mentioned but not expanded on.

There is a saying in Arabic

Jesus Christ

Heart wrenching. I feel myself getting radicalize in real time.