BAMCHAVA503, I agree with you on the calendar. As for El Mirador, it's not just the size of the pyramid, it's the age of the city. El Mirador pushes the Classic back at least 300BC, to maybe even 600BC. That is amazing. The Maya truly created an ancient civilization. If only we had more of their books. I have been in the Mayan area. It is spectacular.
I wish Americans and Canadians knew half as much about the Maya, Tenochtitlan, and Teotihuacan as they do about the Romans and Greeks. The latter may be the history of their ancestors, but the former is the history of their land.
They had small wars with rival kings but never conquered other states. Only near 800 A.D. did they start conquering other states and capitals, Before 800 A.D. they only made captive the other kings and killed them. But left the cities relatively alone to start again with a new king. Wasn't wars or environmental or anything else suggested. They simply dissapeared. Maybe they all left for South America. And the jungles there. Or just went back to jungle living
Its unbelieveable but somehow they just dissapeared. why on earth would millions of city living people for 1000s of years lived and shared in beautiful cities of utopia, why would they leave for the harseness of the jungle. it makes no sense. but they dissapeared in 900 A.D. the spanish didnt arrive until 1491 A.D. 591 years after the mayans left. To answer your quote there.
one of the last maya stronghold tayasal Guatemala , conquered around 1640 , way after the Spanish /. The maya were never vanquished . Just moved to Yucatan in the 900s .
Thats what Ive thinking for many years . they left their advances civilization for the jungle i believes something spooked them making them fleeing away into jungles and not continued their advancement
The Mayans utterly dissapeared in the 9th century before 1000 A.D. hundreds of cities composing from 10,000 to 100,000 of people and some had half a million in some cities utterly dissapeared just before 1000 A.D. its a mystery and noone can prove what happened. It wasn't drought or crop failure or environmental causes. They lived with massive earthquakes, volcanos, crop fails, many droughts and floods and survived from 3000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. it wasnt environmental. And wasnt war either.
Mayans never dissapeared. When the Spanish arrived Xinabajul, Iximche, Tayasal, etc were still occupied. Around half of the modern Guatemalan population is Maya and in Yucatan there are millions more.
This is not true. The classic age went away as many of the large cities collapse. From more resent studies it looks like raids from the north, they start to build walls around there cities, and a breakdown in trading routes so they were not re settled. Many Maya cities were not effected. Many more smaller less spectacular Maya cities formed after that. Old Chitzen itza is a post classic itza Maya site. New Chitzen itza is more Toltec but both lived in the city.
Early 15 century who paid tribute system to China? It was Mayan as recorded. Maya was in decay, when Spanish arrived and they got chicken pot spread by the invaders and slowly they collapse.
Did they have electron lasers and penicillin? I respect them for using maths too look at a few fancy star formations but compared too us they're not such a mega force. Besides, they sacrificed one-another over their gods.
Excuse me? First of all no historic civilization had penicilin nor lasers. The Maya had an insanely precise calendar, and they deciphered solar, lunar and even venusian cycles. They had the concept of zero, the tallest building in America before the Modern Age, and the only writing system in the whole PreColumbian America which could express every word on a language accurately. The Old World never had such a thing at first except perhaps for Egypt or China, and Europe had to wait until the Romans for the first actual european civilization. Oh, and human sacrifice was universal. Over gods, over justice, death penatly, Inquisition, Cruzades, slavery, you name it.
BAMCHAVA503, I agree with you on the calendar. As for El Mirador, it's not just the size of the pyramid, it's the age of the city. El Mirador pushes the Classic back at least 300BC, to maybe even 600BC. That is amazing. The Maya truly created an ancient civilization. If only we had more of their books. I have been in the Mayan area. It is spectacular.
Too bad the whole documentary is chopped up. Second half repeats the first half with no sound.
What happens with the audio after 15:40?
What happened to the sound?
I like how the video repeats without any sound.P
is this from a series? is there other episodes about other historic peoples like this, mad ein the same style as this??
what the heck is wrong with the sound!?
I wish Americans and Canadians knew half as much about the Maya, Tenochtitlan, and Teotihuacan as they do about the Romans and Greeks. The latter may be the history of their ancestors, but the former is the history of their land.
se deja de escuchar el video.
WHAT GOES. AROUND....... COMES AROUND.........
They had small wars with rival kings but never conquered other states. Only near 800 A.D. did they start conquering other states and capitals, Before 800 A.D. they only made captive the other kings and killed them. But left the cities relatively alone to start again with a new king. Wasn't wars or environmental or anything else suggested. They simply dissapeared. Maybe they all left for South America. And the jungles there. Or just went back to jungle living
Its unbelieveable but somehow they just dissapeared. why on earth would millions of city living people for 1000s of years lived and shared in beautiful cities of utopia, why would they leave for the harseness of the jungle. it makes no sense. but they dissapeared in 900 A.D. the spanish didnt arrive until 1491 A.D. 591 years after the mayans left. To answer your quote there.
one of the last maya stronghold tayasal Guatemala , conquered around 1640 , way after the Spanish /. The maya were never vanquished . Just moved to Yucatan in the 900s .
Thats what Ive thinking for many years . they left their advances civilization for the jungle
i believes something spooked them making them fleeing away into jungles and not continued their advancement
The Mayans utterly dissapeared in the 9th century before 1000 A.D. hundreds of cities composing from 10,000 to 100,000 of people and some had half a million in some cities utterly dissapeared just before 1000 A.D. its a mystery and noone can prove what happened. It wasn't drought or crop failure or environmental causes. They lived with massive earthquakes, volcanos, crop fails, many droughts and floods and survived from 3000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. it wasnt environmental. And wasnt war either.
Mayans never dissapeared. When the Spanish arrived Xinabajul, Iximche, Tayasal, etc were still occupied. Around half of the modern Guatemalan population is Maya and in Yucatan there are millions more.
This is not true. The classic age went away as many of the large cities collapse. From more resent studies it looks like raids from the north, they start to build walls around there cities, and a breakdown in trading routes so they were not re settled. Many Maya cities were not effected. Many more smaller less spectacular Maya cities formed after that.
Old Chitzen itza is a post classic itza Maya site. New Chitzen itza is more Toltec but both lived in the city.
Early 15 century who paid tribute system to China? It was Mayan as recorded. Maya was in decay, when Spanish arrived and they got chicken pot spread by the invaders and slowly they collapse.
Nearly as accurate? Are you freakin' kiddin' me?! Mayan calendar was and is much much more accurate than "ours"!
Yeah agreed! We were just 9 years late that’s all see now the world is ending like my ancestors said
Did they have electron lasers and penicillin? I respect them for using maths too look at a few fancy star formations but compared too us they're not such a mega force.
Besides, they sacrificed one-another over their gods.
Excuse me? First of all no historic civilization had penicilin nor lasers. The Maya had an insanely precise calendar, and they deciphered solar, lunar and even venusian cycles. They had the concept of zero, the tallest building in America before the Modern Age, and the only writing system in the whole PreColumbian America which could express every word on a language accurately. The Old World never had such a thing at first except perhaps for Egypt or China, and Europe had to wait until the Romans for the first actual european civilization. Oh, and human sacrifice was universal. Over gods, over justice, death penatly, Inquisition, Cruzades, slavery, you name it.
I thought the same thing when I heard the calendar comment.
Ethnocentrism at it's finest.