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Did city building civilisations such the Aztec, Maya and Inca have any concept of "civilised or uncivilised" akin to European notions of "Civilisation and barbarity" in their lexicon? Did they see themselves as different to decentralised tribal polities, or was there no clearly defined division?

by /u/The_Wolfshead in /r/AskHistorians

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