I’m writing a paper and I’m so confused; if the people of the island are still around, how is the island such a mystery? Is it that the Rapa Nui alive were mostly the descendants of slaves or immigrants from the island? I hope this isn’t too stupid of a question but I just can’t find anything addressing it. Thanks!
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I mean just ask a random villager a couple hundred years ago about the history of whatever part of Europe they are in. They won’t Be able to tell you.
Only the educated higher classes had access to such knowledge.
And when a civilisation collapses, factual histories for centuries ago kinda go out the window. Much more so if you got no paper to write on.
It’s really just like the typical apocalypse movie: people rapidly declined due to local climate change, no time to memorise/record further out histories and tons of knowledge lost.
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