✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Olmecs: c. 1200–400 BC; Aztec Empire: 1428–1521; Moon landing: 1969 — about 1,800 years between the first two, 541 years between the last two.
The Aztec Empire is closer in time to the Moon landing than to the end of the Olmec civilization.
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