It’s interesting reading Cabeza de Vaca’s account of living in Texas for a decade. All the natives living on the Texas coast weren’t even hunter-gatherers. They were just gatherers and lived in lean-tos. Meanwhile, 1000 miles south of them was Tenochtitlan, and a bunch of other cities that Bernal Castillo described as grander than those in Europe.
It’s interesting reading Cabeza de Vaca’s account of living in Texas for a decade. All the natives living on the Texas coast weren’t even hunter-gatherers. They were just gatherers and lived in lean-tos. Meanwhile, 1000 miles south of them was Tenochtitlan, and a bunch of other cities that Bernal Castillo described as grander than those in Europe.