The Maya Civilization Explained in 11 Minutes
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In the past decade or two, there has been an upsurge of interest about the Maya, their history, civilization, and culture. There have been more documentaries and fiction movies, books and stories about them. This was partly fueled by the mythical Maya prediction of the end of the world in 2012, which for a short period of time put this civilization under the media spotlight. But there is much more to their culture than the common misconception about their calendar. And for a long time before the Maya caught the eyes of the wider population, archeologists and historians did their best to uncover and piece together the complete story about the Maya civilization.
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Mayans are not gone, man. They are still here and their language is one of the most important native languages of the country
Victor Alfonso Angeles exactly 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🇧🇿 🇭🇳 🇸🇻 🇳🇮 🇨🇷 🇵🇦
which country, Guatemala? Most are guetemalan
Of coures we are still alive, the problem about those fake videos is that they show to the world "Mayan people are gone"---
At least I still speak my ancient language most of the time, because you know, sometimes we need to talk with friends with different languanges.
victor you have a point and you are right
the culture of the Mayans and worshiping of gods are still practiced by the Mayans who are living today
Salutations from a House of Xela'ju, of Quetzaltenango. I am a Guatemalan Man (1st generation USA/Taldera) both my parents are Maya and I would like to thank you for sharing this video. Keep up the good works.
Hey brother same here 1st gen
I'm adopted and never got to know much about my Guatemalan background. Im not too sure if im Mayan but ive been told i looked like im one due to my nose and forehead. Videos like these make me so happy and proud to be Guatemalan. Thank you :]
Same here actually
Me too !!
Thank you for making it more clear for me as I’m writing an assignment about this Maya Civilisation.🙏🏾
What did the Mayans know when they created their calendar???
* *shows picture of the Aztec calendar* *
Yeah this video is fake news
@universal oneness I will prove or disaprove it in a few years. I speak a mayan language, actually one direct branch of the First-Old mayan language.
So, we will see!
The scriptwriter and editor were probably not the same person.
@@joelmcpherson9789 wait really why?
That they could make a wheel shaped calendar, but couldn’t figure out how to put 4 of them on a wooden box.
My tribe, called Muscogee, is purported to have a third to half of the same words in our language as Maya. When I was a child, my Grandmother told me that our tribe came from Mexico. We were the only North American tribe that wore a mustache, and the men had short hair.
I used to live in Oklahoma where they have the city of Muskogee.. Just spelled different ❤
As a Guatemalan, I'm proud to be native American, especially the mayan. My modern day tribe is call "kiche" . The spanish couldn't kill us!!!!
I’ve never been to Guatemala but both my parents are from there and my dad speaks an indigenous language called Kiche!
@@jamesbombss5777 yup same tribe
Another Mayan here! Ch'orti' is my tribe 💪
I’m half Guatemalan but I’ve learned a little kiche, it’s very difficult if you know Spanish or English .
Mopan Mayan here
there are so many mistakes and randomly put photos in this; as one commenter mentioned that the Aztec calendar was shown while he was talking about the Mayan Calendar (there were 3). Why the glorification of warfare, and the absolute brushing over of the effect of Spanish conquest?
my exact thoughts, people usually villainize mayans or aztecs because of what they practice but lets be real europeans have done 10 times worst shit.
@@canofsouls282yeah but our own people sold us because they thought of the Spanish as goods.
The "Mayan Clendar" shown is the Mexica (known as Aztec) Sun Stone. This video has so many mistakes, unbelievable that you're selling a book, LOL.
Everyone does that it's so annoying.
The mayas said the world would end today
@im a poor british boy asking for subs No buddy. If you are going to tell a factual account then be consistent.
You are wrong about a number of issues. Please research before you publish this
Calendar and Mexican my god was that hard damn fool
The mayans were definitely my ancestors
cap
I don’t remember asking
What if your parents were born in chiapas ?
@Hilda Velasquez I didn’t say cap I just said I didn’t ask
There is a small but legitimate chance genghis Kahn could be your ancestor 😮
History is amazing and replete with ancient civilizations. Very informative video
I’m watching this for school but I’m reading the comments and eating candy 🍬
And it’s 10:07 AM😂
I ATE MY LAST BABY ROOTH 😭😭😭😭
That is so funny I am to😘💖
What?😝
If they have tombs they better not open it this year we don't need it
@@Captain-Waffles that lack of info is what that scare me
Talking about the Maya but shows the Aztec Calendar...
You also could start reading the history book of the Hopi: "The history of the Hopi from their origin in Lemuria". This book describes that the Hopi migrated from Lemuria, the sunken continent in the PAcific Ocean, to the America's about 30,000 years ago! They claim to be the ancestors of the Maya and they wandered from Central to North America and back.
Indigenous Peoples are all very much alive today. Sure, some tribes have been wiped out. But countless others have resisted, banded together, and have kept their traditions alive to this day, including here in colonial USA.
There are more than 5 million Native Americans here representing 574 federally recognized First Nations (or what you'd call "tribes"), and nearly each of them is distinct with its own culture and language. The state of California alone has the largest population of Native people in USA. There are 700,000 Indigenous descendants, currently representing 109 federally recognized First Nations in that state. Among the most populous First Nations in colonial USA are the *Navajo, Cherokee, Chahta, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Lakota, Dakota, Comanche, Apache, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Inuit, and Wampanoag.*
They're on the front lines preserving what's left of their cultures and languages, and also to protect America's last pristine natural habitats and resources from pollution and destruction. They just officially shut down the Keystone XL oil pipeline just a few months ago as of 2021.
There are 70 million Indigenous people all over North and South America, including in Greenland and in the Caribbean. Some are mixed, but there are still many full blooded Indigenous people.
There are 25 million Indigenous people within México alone. 2 million of them are Nāhuatl, and that is the shared language of the Aztecs, Tlaxcalans, Acolhuas, even the Toltecs in Mesoamerica.
There are also 6 million Maya people representing 28 different Maya ethnic groups. Among the most numerous of the Mayas are the *K'iche'* and they're a million strong. The other Maya cultures are *Yokot'an, Màaya T'àan, Q'anjob'al, Kaqchikel, Tzʼutujil, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Chuj, Ch'ol, Ch'orti, Itzá, Ixil, Achi, Mam, Poqomam, Poqomchi, Mocho',* and more. They are completely different from the Aztecs themselves.
Southeastern México, Belize and Guatemala are largely populated by Mayas today! These are still their ancestral territories, despite what colonization did to the Mayas since their last independent city-state was destroyed in 1697 (Nojpetén, Peten Itza kingdom).
South America's most numerous Native American ethnic groups are the Quechua and Aymara people. Their ancestors founded the Inca Empire or Tawantinsuyu in Runasimi, language of the Quechua. There are more than 12 million people combined from both of these Native ethnic groups, and they're all over Bolivia, Perú, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, and even Colombia.
Let's not forget the Amazon too. Over 900,000 Native people still live deep in the untouched rainforests, and the ones who established first contact are from 300 different communities and more. That includes the *Arhuaco, Inga, Camsa, Lokono, Kokama, Mẽbêngôkre, Nukak, Panare, Pataxó, Ticuna, Warao, Waorani, Wayúu, Yagua, and Yąnomamö,* and hundreds more.
Native Americans are all still here.
Lmao how about the African Americans that claim they are the actual Native Americans (among other cultures and ethnicities I've heard of other Black American groups claim).
They believe they are the actual Mayans, Native Americans, Aztecs and indigenous peoples (some of them even wear feathers in their hair while claiming this) other Black American groups believe differently that they AND all the indigenous Americans are the lost 12 tribes of israel.
@@mutalix Unfortunately what they believe in is a racist conspiracy theory that started in the 1880s thanks to the horrific misinterpretations of these two men: Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy. They started the Black Hebrew Israelite cult movements that misappropriate Christian, Jewish, and Indigenous cultures. Catholics and Protestants do not claim them. The Jewish Diaspora and even Jewish Ethiopians see their cults blasphemous. The Black Hebrew Israelites are nonsensical and flat-out racist because, over the course of the century after their founding, they started to deny the events of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and disregard their various ethnic and linguistic origins from West and Central Africa. The Black Hebrew israelites are also just as hostile towards real Afro-Indigenous People who have mixed Black-Native ancestry lines like Afro-Indigenous People who live among the Seminole, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Lakota and Navajo, and in the Caribbean like thousands of Boricuas/Puerto Ricans and Garifuna. It's a whole lot of yikes. They deserved to be categorized as a hate group.
@@BaraJFDA proof that not all humans are the same, some are intelligent than others
It's a scientific fact that other than registered full Native ppl and tribes, Mexican ppl, including Mexican Americans, carry more Native DNA than any other group, and Latin America ain't no slouch either! Mexico carries more full Native tribes and full Native, that any other country. If u count the Meztizo, who r half or more Native, the number is double.
@teresafernandez9849 Peruvians and Guatemalans possess a stronger presence of Native DNA compared to Mexicans.
Totoise worship by ancient Mayans is a close parallel to Kurma Avatar of Lord Vishnu .. Snakes and Tortoises are found in alomost all Mayan temples - Ekbalam ,Uxmal, Kabah, Tulum... may be many more .. all Anicent Native Americans (Mayans, Aztecs, Incas,...etc) and Asian Hindus are CONNECTED by Divinity, faith and spirit, religion, knowledge of Math, geometry, Temple architectures.. eating rice, vegetables.. since BC times..
apocalypto brought me here saw the movie yesterday
Dude great movie!
Me too
It’s also super innacurate
Try not watch it because as a Mayan, I can tell you that the movie es an insult.
It has good cinematography, but innacurate. The Maya were way more advanced than portrayed in the movie.
Maya people from Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala still exists today and forever including myself.
I’m Mexican but according to dna tests we are 60% native highland Chiapas Mayans
When I read History, I literally feel proud that India, Japan, China literally saved thier culture.
Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia lost to Abrahamic Culture, American and Australia Continents lost to European.
We may never understand the level of courage in these people who saved thier culture and history.
I tried to watch this video thinking is accurate but after the first 35 seconds I spotted a wrong image of the Mayan calendar. Fail.
Anybody else got this as an assignment on google classroom?
me lol
Me lmao
my teacher told me to watch this video 🙄✋🏼
@@lizzie7249 same😑😑
Maybe I'll assign this to my students 😂 I'm a teacher
little do we know the calander was read wrong and instead of 2012 it reads 2021
It's really sad I haven't connected to my culture as a native Guatemalan
Now I'm just Americanized
@@dion8202 I’m of indigenous Guatemala with Mayan decent however I was adopted so I never was really able to tap into my roots until recent. I grew up a multiracial kid that had no connection to any of my relatives or culture and it was always a struggle. As of late tho I’ve been able to connect with my roots as well as myself easier than ever but I took a lot of self reflection and studying up on my culture. I still don’t know much and it’s harder to learn from the perspective of the United States cause history is whitewashed but I still feel more connected with my true self and culture than I have before and as time goes on I will be more connected with my past. Don’t give up hope bro
Thanks for the debriefing!
Thank you, great simplistic overview! Gracias!
Actually information in this video is mostly incorrect
@@aleksandrowicz4577 Is that true?
Thank you! I learned new things from this video!
You are best.you explane very well in simple words.
Explain your phone didn’t go red when you typed that word
I am curious of the fact that maybe the Maya had higher technology that we know of. I believe they had access to "free energy."
They are still around, why not ask them.
@@macarde10 cause it's not them
@@nasraken1971 well aware it isn’t who you think it is. Guess you forgot our past conversations, happy new year! :)
@@macarde10 not in memory, if it's in the Past then it's just that..
PAST, I have no thoughts on their identity as of current because they are not here , all these labels are just labels, Feliz Nuevo Ano!
Nothing is ever free. Nothing. They worked just like we do to be able to tap into that energy. Some just have access to it's main source. The pyramids are symbols of energy and if you wanted to live around it you could, but you were expected to work and worship, far from free.
It's disappointing. It is full of images and data that are not from the Mayans but from the Aztecs. Those human sacrifices of prisoners on that stone correspond to the Aztecs, as Well as the bloodthirst. That calendar shown is also Aztec, although it is easy to get images of the Mayan ... At minute 8.30 you see an image of the conquest of the Spanish, but that's Tenochtitlan! (Aztec) that was connected by bridges... no Mayan city was like that. 🤦♀️
when ur teacher gives you the video to watch 👁👄👁
8:30
does the Aztecs video have Mayans stuff?
This blood thirst that USA ppl always mention, is BS from the conqueror. Not saying we didn't sacrifice our enemy,but where do you ppl get off! Burning people at the stake in New England in the name of Christianity, isn't blood thirsty? Slaughter of men women and children at wounded knee, for love of God and country, isn't savage? Heads rolling off the French guillotine over religion and politics, isn't savage? Everywhere the European went, they slaughtered, tortured, enslaved, looted and shoved their violent Christian religion down ppl's throat and up their ass! You did it with one hand on the bible and a bloody sword or gun in the other. You lined up ur enemies and shot them, at least we gave our enemy purpose!! You too turned brothers on brothers in ur civil war. You lynched Black ppl and Méxicans for the color of their skin. Mark Twain said it all: "there are a lot of humerous things in the world, one of them being the savages who think they are less savage than the savages"! Your still savages, u have chosen guns over humanity!! HYPOCRITES!
I love being mixed my moms from Haiti and my fathers from Honduras. So the research is crazy. But because Pops was not around I never learned Spanish so I never had any love for Spain. And then learning history really help me not caring about Spain at all or Spanish. Just a history so that brings me here
Most Meztizo and full Native, have little or no love for Spain.
@@SirBelmerD just because you have a Spanish last names does it mean that you’re really Spanish Nigga 😂😂🤣😂🤣
@@teresafernandez9849 That's a shame you should have much love and admiration for Spain; mestizos and full natives were protected and had their own lands under the Spanish law called Las Leyes de Indias, slavery was forbidden and workers had 8 hour working days. It was when these territories were separated from Spain that the natives were badly treated and lost their lands. It's a shame that 300 years of the history of the viceroyalties, when there was peace and prosperity is not taught in schools.th-cam.com/video/dj2SiJzXf7E/w-d-xo.html
thats like saying black africans in america should admire and love the white americans that colonized, enslaved, and murdered their people lol. @@yalonyun2785
What I find interesting is that the whole american continent developed completly independent to the Eurasian continent for the past 12000 years. Even with this completly independent develeopments their build structures and culture followed the same outlines of those in eurasia. This would mean that some ideas are just inherintly human and will develop idependently if given the right amout of time.
They would died in the world flood of 2348 BC .. They would of had to have started sometime after the tower of Babel in 2200 BC .According to researchers, the very first cities in the Maya region were developed as early as 750 BC
The world flood was 15 000 bc not 3000
Who started using these BCE and CE? As if we need more confusion and fragmentation in conventions...
ukrr
It makes more sense academically to use BCE and CE since one can easily fix it on a certain date. Not possible with BC/AD because there is ongoing (and neverending) debate on when exactly Christ was born.
Mayan and South East Asia must have some connection because their civilization look like majapahit and sriwijaya
Thanks
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Love this video but on 4.40 minute mark it is not the Mayan Calendar that was the Aztec Calendar.
I read somewhere that the end is actually August 27 2020 with a different calendar
Mayan calendar was started after Mahabharata War in Asia which took over 2 billions lives over 5000 years ago..
I just came here for my history class
Yes I only watch history videos when its time for history
bru ty i have an essay abt the rise and fall of the maya civilization and this is what i needed exactly 🫸🫷
Ive been a Few days ago to Chichén-Itzá and the guide told us a little bit other Story
We’re still here 🇬🇹🇲🇽🇸🇻🇭🇳🇳🇮🇧🇿
Way to mention Guatemala, where most of Mayan civilization was located
Thank you for the maps!
I am honestly here for my words culture class... I’d rather be on weeb tik tok or drawing and chilling or watching netflix and chill.... to be honest this was actually helpful! But I’m not into history-
Lol, it’s for my spanish class
How can u not be into history? It’s literally the story of the world
Ethan Smith boring story of the world that has u guzzle down facts OR ELSE
I just came here watching because of my teacher
If you are here for history,don't be! This is the most inaccurate Mayan cultural and historical analysis I have ever witnessed
Mayans and tamils the kumari kaandam, is the connection
When do we know we have to use 'Maya' or 'Mayan' ?
why is the Aztec calendar being identified as Mayan?
I love this!
Trying to describe their civilization in 11 minutes is an insult.
To who?
Lol love the land bridge theory
Love from India
Who did the Maya people worship and what are the 2 huge things Maya created
Sun God, Maize God - Astrology and the character 0
And cocao
@Ash Singh The last time I checked the Mayas recorded zero at least hundreds of centuries before who ever you're talking about. Maybe you should be the one to tell yourself stop spreading false information.
@@vvvrrruuummm9355 These r Afro culture vultures! There is absolutely NO scientific proof of their culture vultures BS! ALL ancient ppl leave footprints. NO DNA, NO WRITTEN OR ORAL HISTORY, NO LANGUAGE, NO TRIBE, NO SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO ANY TRIBES!! We still eat exactly like our ancestors. Corn tortilla, beans, peppers, avacado, cactus dishes, cactus fruit, crops of the Americas! Food is one of the biggest give aways of your roots. Afros r stuck on Mac and cheese and bbq ribs!! Get over it, culture vultures, u ain't Native and we ain't Afro. Take ur rediculous, interloping, intrusive, wannabe, menacing culture vulture argument to science and genologists, they disagree with you, we r classified as a non Afro genetic group!
I'm at class right now 😔🤭😣
Yo
Im here because of school, trying to finish my late assignments 0-0
@@keeho2622 I have 32 missing assignments 👁👅👁
Last year I had 100+ because no one mentioned of the app we were soppuse to use
Sameeee
Mayan K'iche here!!! 😊😊
Where the Spanish trying to look for the lost city of gold
Their history culture is similar to olden One community called Nagas in India where their ancestor were headhunters, sacrificing humans to their God for their crops fertility and many similarities .. 💕
Interesting and useful in class but the calendar you keep showing is Aztec!
Mayan religion is very similar to of India.
Is there any chance these connected via trade or migration???
nope
Spain never won! At least talking about warfares, even though they had better weapons, mayan always won, so you're probably thinking what ´erradicate´ to the mayas? Well, the answer is all the new diseases. There are theories that say "If not for the diseases, Spain never had won"
The first American Inhabitants kept records which have been translated and published in the Book of Mormon.
Jade actually isn't native to Tulum. The Mayans imported it from Guatemala :-)
So many things wrong with the "opinions" in this video. If you know anything about Mayan history and the Nahuatl language, you'll understand.
Thank you so much for explain
I love for nepal ❤
You do realize modern day Mayans exist and also there most recent descendants the tainos who travels from Yucatán peninsula into the Caribbean Sea into Dominican rep/ Puerto Rico It’s makes so much sense now why I look Mexican but was born in Dominican rep 🤣😭😭 I love our history it all lead back to mesoamerica
Thank you
In sec. The 13th, a Sasmi research ship, came into contact with the Mayan civilization, violating the TigKra Protocol that forbade this. In 1250, the Mayan territories were devastated by a very powerful epidemic, which killed tens of thousands of people. Mayan leaders enlisted the help of their Sasmi friends. Sasmi researchers also sought help from the government, but were denied violations of international law, namely the Pastros Treaty and the TigKra protocol. To force things, the researchers embarked a delegation of Mayan leaders and took them to the capital, directly in front of Queen Munre. In the end, however, as the death toll increased, the Sasmi authorities decided to evacuate part of the Mayan population, so as to ensure its survival. In 1251, an expedition of 50 cruise ships and several dozen warships escorting them arrived in Earth orbit and began evacuating 200,000 Mayans from 40 cities. The only condition was that the people chosen for departure should meet certain criteria, such as age, health, etc. Thus the Mayan civilization was installed on the planet Trador.
My people come back for me!
I didn’t understand a word you said LOL 😂😂
@@joshuacannon5281 Watch Space Embassy and you will understand.
They say aliens helped the mayans put their pyramids but u never know just that God bless all people
this aliens crap, is rediculous! Also, a fact, that ppl don't know, the biggest and oldest pyramid is in the Americas, not Egypt.
They say Aliens built everything and helped everyone build stuff. It’s not just “non white” cultures they talk about
Mayans are not gone!!
In case you wonder why they built those pyramids, it's simply because the chief wanted them built
Who’s here because of school?
I have to make a Mayan timeline
Meeee😊
Me to relive my school years
Thank you 🙏🏽
"A common weapon used by the mayans was the *Adeladle* "
I love being spoon fed lies and attempting to believe them. Makes me feel normal.
What lies were presented in this video?
The truth about the Mayans and Meso-America is probably to difficult to comprehend for everyone involved. The earth moving part about all of this is, when the Mongolians/Eurasia humans crossed that ice land bridge? There were people already here in America as this is the true old world and they taught the Egyptian their sciences…. Those pyramids are dead give aways and look closely at the original pictures they depicted themselves… I just learned this shit about 5 years ago and it’s becoming even crazier the more information I’ve found…
@@Samuel-zz5ss Probably none, but Shane has to give the impression that he's just so above it all.
@@yankee2666 😂love this comment
I am pretty sure the Spanish conquered the Aztecs.
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This history can be read in the Book of Mormon.
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Wrong information about timing
~ Profond respect de cet esprit basé en Europe.
I am a mayah out of cape verde or cap vert
They went into the Inner World.
This prove the savige side of eourpian
Is the nature and cruelty of the Mexican Cartel the same as the nature of the Mayan tribe...?
thanks
Your welcome
who else is watching this for school
The 🌙brought the chariot. Death and transformation ⚖✨union ⚖✨galaxy ✨💜♥
if. You want to know about MAYAN CALENDER ! Please come INDIA and JUST to study ( SURYA SIDHANTA ) Means THE PRINCIPLE OF SUN 🌞 ☀️ 🌤 🌅 ♌️ 🙏. VERY Abrahmic 😊❤😊pool of mythological logies OR ism brand Mind can't understand IT FOR next 10000 years .
Watch this - APM Research: The Milky Way, The Pyramids, Free Energy, The Ark of the Covenant - Decoded!
Pseudo science hogwash
Mayans did not come from the bearing land bridge. Mayans did not sacrifice captured enemies. Mayans did not deal with the Olmecs, the dealed with the Toltecs. This video gets many things wrong
Mayan culture is compared tohindusam
chrisrian missinarey ruined
this culture andestablish
christian religion
allworld in bc exist
hindu culture
That’s the Aztec calander. Not Myan
Weren’t the Mayans gone by the time the Spanish came ?
No, in fact they are still there.
USA ppl have been fed so much BS about Native ppl, it's so obvious. USA ppl r very misinformed about Native ppl and ur world is very small about Native ppl. All South West tribes were Mexican, no doubt many of them have Maya in them!
Yes
Give me a full
If the Mayans could have come in contact with the outside world than how comes their civilisation have lost for so many years n discovered just recently?
They meant “the other way of #civilization and you know what?! They are correct”
I thought the Mayans were already gone by the time the Aztecs arrived on the scene 🤔
It wasn't the end of civilization rather it was the beginning of something else . . . MAATLA