A lot of people don't realize that Maya buildings were coated with plaster and highlighted with colorful paints, so I'm glad the animation reflects this history.
We're just lucky we were able to get the vegetation growth off it. Thank God though the Europeans didn't tear anything down like this. They admired the cultures here, too bad they had a distorted view of admiring them.
Yes pls give us a whole bunch of em. I’m a student of History and International Relations and I’m finding the historical videos here on TED-ED very helpful.
Question: do people in Mexico pronounce the in Mayan/Nahuatl names as 'sh' or as the Spanish 'j' when speaking Spanish? I'm thinking for small places and topographic names, like Xolotlan
@@RcsN505 Neither, I'm not a linguist so I don't know much about, but we pronounce the X depending of the word as "JS" like in Xochitl or "KS" in Xalisco, similar as the name Xavier in Xmen franchise.
@@gillroygarlic3616 👍They left their large cities. People moved away to search for the resources they needed. Today, the descendants of the Mayas still live in Mexico and Central America. Of course, many have also moved all over the globe.
@@paillette2010 👍 it’s a common misconception that the educator/writer also does the narration. Props to the professional voice actors who bring the script to life
Como Yucateco realmente se agradece el trabajo invertido en esta pieza con contenido documentando la historia de la civilización maya con un excelente estilo artístico muy similar a la maya. Realmente sería muy excelente contar en español y maya la narración y/o subtítulos para poder presentarlo a las comunidades de la península ya que muchas veces desconocen de su propia historia por no contar con el material para verlo en maya y tambien poder preservar parte de la cultura maya que poco a poco se está perdiendo. Gracias. As Yucatenian i really thank you for the work invested on the film documenting the history of maya civilization with an excellent artistic style very similar to the mayas. It would be perfect having spanish and maya narration with subtitiles so it can be shown to communities on the Yucatan peninsula because often they dont even know their own past because they dont have a way of seeing it on maya lenguage and also could preserve part of the maya culture that little by little its fading away. Thank you.
wear a lot of sunscreen and be ready to walk a lot. Also you have to pay twice at the entrance. Go straight to the ticket booth don't let the local guides sell you anything. It is much cheaper buying it directly. They speak English there. Have funn.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. Just because the sacrificed children doesn't change the fact that they were a society we could learn from. The ancient Romans buried many Vestal Virgins alive for breaking their oath of celibacy, but it didn't change the fact that they were pioneers in the field of science and created many feats of engineering, and used many of the breakthroughs they made today. The same goes for the Ancient Indus, Chinese, Mesopotamian, Carthaginian and Egyptian Civilizations. Just because they did wrong, doesn't mean that we can't learn from them.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. Oh please whiner, Europeans slaughtered children too. The Aztec were highly advanced technologically, astronimically and even socially
The visuals are stunning and I love the narrator's voice. Another informative video!! I love learning about ancient civilizations. It feels surreal that long ago there were thes people who had their language which is either déad or spoken very differently then the original one, the culture and their lives.
Thank you for fcusing on Mayan history before the Spanish showed up. The Mayans have a rich history before Europeans showed up and they wrote it down. History is too Eurocentric most of the time.
@@zabrak999 Europe did do a lot but so did many nations and empires around the world. The only reason you think Europe was the only, and best one is because of the euro-centric misinformation egotistical rulers and racists have spread
I moved to Mexico at a young age and actually lived around here, visiting chichen itza and learning so much Mayan history! It was in the architecture everywhere, and this rally makes me feel that home like feeling. I miss Yucatán, and this brought back a whole flood of experiences and even the history we learned in my school. Really well done, thank you!
Funny coincidence: it happened to be, as this video was being released, I was in Cancun. The location of the city is only 2 Hour drive from where I am. very interesting video!
THIS IS FOR TED-ED I know it wasn't really an empire but it would be nice for you guys to do a video on the "rise and fall of the Maori empire". I would love to learn more about Maori history and how their empire fell and I always love your videos so I thought 'why not watch a video from TED-ED about it, but to my shock, there wasn't one!! thanks =)
Amazing video! Only caveat in my opinion: "diverse international culture" gets the point across but the term "international" may misleadingly project modern ideas of nationhood into premodern societies.
Hey Ted Ed love your videos but i was wondering if you guys can make an educational video of ear infection it’s fascinating how the ear works and how it suffers thank you.
Sooo... Chichen Itza's advantage is that it have caverns to preserve water so it could withstand drought, but it's downfall was that it had a drought. And to stop the the drought people through dead bodies into the caverns. Makes sense...
Maya Empire: deities Maya Hero Twins K'uk'ulkan (also known as Quetzalcoatl in Aztec) Rain deities (Chaac is the only Maya rain deities) Ix Chel (goddess of the moon)
The more pressing question is: whatever happened to Chechen Pizza?! It used to be a huge restaurant chain but now nobody can even remember it existed!...
i know this isnt the point of the video but the fact that sports were considered an important part of religious life/its importance society similar to how it is today makes me really happy- humans are all the same
The Mayan Civilization was never an "Empire" as they did not have a single ruler who ruled over the entire Mayan culture, like the Aztecs. The Mayan civilization were a collection of independent city states each of which had their own independent rulers. This is such a well known fact about the Mayans, I am quite frankly shocked and disappointed that TED-ed, an organization that focuses on education would get this basic historical fact, wrong.
Unnecessary trivia about me: The first time I saw the word Chichen Itza was on a classmate's T-shirt back on elementary school. I honestly thought it's a word play on chicken pizza 🍕 No offense intended peeps, just little me being silly.
I always love central and south american cultures. The aztecs could of fought off the spanish if they didn't have so many. They messed them up the firts time and spain had to come back with more men Is there a video on Olmec culture.
How did the mayans know there were 365 days in a year? Its got me thinking idk. Why was their unit for their year the same as a culture across the atlantic? Youd think theyd have their own time keeping units they literally have a calendar.
No way is the 9th century the Mayan golden age. Literally the end of the civilization. The Mayans from Chichen Itza also were also sorta islander invaders. When they arrived the Mayans really hated them and tried to repel them. Also Mayans didn't have Empires. They had alliances at best but it was more based on tributary and subjugation rather than imperialism. Chichen Itza was so powerful because the rest of Mayan civilization was struggling. It's hard to compare it with Mayan cities just a couple of centuries earlier when we're seeing the heyday of Calakmul and Mutul/Tikal.
@nic558 It depends, really. There are two different ways to understand the American continent's geography. For what I understand, the USA's system sees it as two continents, North and South Americas. But for many countries, there is only one continent, divided in three regions: North (Canada to Mexico), Central (Belize to Panama and the Caribbean Islands) and South (Colombia to Argentina). I not super familiar with the USA's system but I think Mexico is not considered part of Central America regardless.
Yes it was a beautiful culture although when you have a drought its probably not the best idea to sacrifice people and throw them into your water reserves!
So sad that colonial language killed native language hope and wish latin Americans open there eyes and start reviving there culture and language like Indians did in India. They didn't learn English and forgot native language and culture. Hinduism.
Why does it all feel like the narration of some sort of mystical and magical place like a lost Atlantis of some sort? The narrator’s voice as well as the video score sound all too overly flourished. When will the narrative surrounding Mesoamerican civilisations change from the white folclore of mysticism to actually spotlighting the complex development of humanity in these non-European territories?
You know whats funny though and kinda bad karma was that mexico citu had to move over because spnaish couldn't keep up with the water like the natives did.
A lot of people don't realize that Maya buildings were coated with plaster and highlighted with colorful paints, so I'm glad the animation reflects this history.
We're just lucky we were able to get the vegetation growth off it.
Thank God though the Europeans didn't tear anything down like this.
They admired the cultures here, too bad they had a distorted view of admiring them.
According to my tour guide when I visited this March, they mixed sacrificial blood in with the plaster
Much like the etruscans and Greeks
Interestingly, in Maya architecture, there's no clear distinction made between religious and non-religious buildings.
@@howru33666 That's true from most ancient cultures, I daresay.
The animation, the narration, the history- everything is perfect! Please gift us more historical videos Ted-Ed!
Yes pls give us a whole bunch of em.
I’m a student of History and International Relations and I’m finding the historical videos here on TED-ED very helpful.
Please donate them
@@diminikolova if you are a lover of history, we could connect and share perspectives together. What do you think?
As a Mexican I appreciate the great effort and good pronunciation of the narrator, well done!
Mayan history being slowly taken away from Mexico. When the Mecca is in current day Guatemala.
Question: do people in Mexico pronounce the in Mayan/Nahuatl names as 'sh' or as the Spanish 'j' when speaking Spanish? I'm thinking for small places and topographic names, like Xolotlan
@@RcsN505 Neither, I'm not a linguist so I don't know much about, but we pronounce the X depending of the word as "JS" like in Xochitl or "KS" in Xalisco, similar as the name Xavier in Xmen franchise.
As a human, i hate purists!
@@gillroygarlic3616 👍They left their large cities. People moved away to search for the resources they needed. Today, the descendants of the Mayas still live in Mexico and Central America. Of course, many have also moved all over the globe.
The fact that we get free videos on TH-cam by TED-Ed is truly a gift; keeping the education and knowledge alive. 👏👏👏
Agreed.
Mr. Braswell's enunciation does my people proud. Thank you.
Braswell’s words + Adrian Dannatt’s narration = absolute gold
@@jrbship Thank you!
And thank you Mr Dannatt! (should have read the credits!)
@@paillette2010 👍 it’s a common misconception that the educator/writer also does the narration. Props to the professional voice actors who bring the script to life
Como Yucateco realmente se agradece el trabajo invertido en esta pieza con contenido documentando la historia de la civilización maya con un excelente estilo artístico muy similar a la maya. Realmente sería muy excelente contar en español y maya la narración y/o subtítulos para poder presentarlo a las comunidades de la península ya que muchas veces desconocen de su propia historia por no contar con el material para verlo en maya y tambien poder preservar parte de la cultura maya que poco a poco se está perdiendo. Gracias. As Yucatenian i really thank you for the work invested on the film documenting the history of maya civilization with an excellent artistic style very similar to the mayas. It would be perfect having spanish and maya narration with subtitiles so it can be shown to communities on the Yucatan peninsula because often they dont even know their own past because they dont have a way of seeing it on maya lenguage and also could preserve part of the maya culture that little by little its fading away. Thank you.
Amigo sí tiene subtítulos en español. Entra a configuración del video
*_"You have to understand the past to understand the present"_*
-Carl Sagan
Yeah, this principle is used in every field of life.
Good timing. I'm going to Chichen Itza on Monday!
wear a lot of sunscreen and be ready to walk a lot. Also you have to pay twice at the entrance. Go straight to the ticket booth don't let the local guides sell you anything. It is much cheaper buying it directly. They speak English there. Have funn.
Have a nice trip
The narration and pronunciation in this one is Chef's kiss!
Narration and visuals👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The large cities may be gone, but I’m glad the Mayans in the Yucatán survived, and preserved their food and culture.
I really wish we could've learned more from ancient cultures rather than working to sweep them away just for the sake of greed and ego
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.
Did you by lynching and burning people in a cross?
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. Spotted the ignoramus history. The Maya were a highly advanced culture, and Europeans also butchered children
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.what are you complaining about?
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. Just because the sacrificed children doesn't change the fact that they were a society we could learn from. The ancient Romans buried many Vestal Virgins alive for breaking their oath of celibacy, but it didn't change the fact that they were pioneers in the field of science and created many feats of engineering, and used many of the breakthroughs they made today. The same goes for the Ancient Indus, Chinese, Mesopotamian, Carthaginian and Egyptian Civilizations.
Just because they did wrong, doesn't mean that we can't learn from them.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. Oh please whiner, Europeans slaughtered children too. The Aztec were highly advanced technologically, astronimically and even socially
The visuals are stunning and I love the narrator's voice. Another informative video!! I love learning about ancient civilizations. It feels surreal that long ago there were thes people who had their language which is either déad or spoken very differently then the original one, the culture and their lives.
Their language is still spoken today. It is an endangered language. It is a Yucatecan Mayan Language.
Thank you for fcusing on Mayan history before the Spanish showed up. The Mayans have a rich history before Europeans showed up and they wrote it down. History is too Eurocentric most of the time.
Because Europeans dominated history, kiddo - cry about it 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🏴✊🏻
@@zabrak999 Europe did do a lot but so did many nations and empires around the world. The only reason you think Europe was the only, and best one is because of the euro-centric misinformation egotistical rulers and racists have spread
@@zabrak999😂 calm down you never would have conquered anywhere without native peoples
@@zabrak999 I bet you thought that was such a clever retort, didn't you? How much have you gone and learnt about non-European history
@@UncleD-f9ewhat do you mean by this? Do you mean without their help or without conquering them?
Wow It's been a while since I've seen a history video, it’s really informative! 👍
whoever summarized all the history did a great job here
I moved to Mexico at a young age and actually lived around here, visiting chichen itza and learning so much Mayan history! It was in the architecture everywhere, and this rally makes me feel that home like feeling. I miss Yucatán, and this brought back a whole flood of experiences and even the history we learned in my school. Really well done, thank you!
The Feathered Serpent god, also known as Quetzocoatl has gotten so popular, there's a pterosaur named after him!
Funny coincidence: it happened to be, as this video was being released, I was in Cancun. The location of the city is only 2 Hour drive from where I am. very interesting video!
Imagine how many people are within two hours of this location 🤔
Voiceover is top notch. ❤
My favorite Ted-Ed narrator
My favorite Ted-Ed narrator
Well the Red Court of Vampires was enacting a massive ritual curse, so Harry Dresden had to intervene. (It's a book reference.)
Still hate how those books handle non-christian gods
The Mayans were an amazing civilization
Just took a course and this was one of the units
More of these stories!
365 Stairs equivalent to 365 days. Wow!
Amazing work!
This is a great basis for a fantasy story.
THIS IS FOR TED-ED
I know it wasn't really an empire but it would be nice for you guys to do a video on the "rise and fall of the Maori empire". I would love to learn more about Maori history and how their empire fell and I always love your videos so I thought 'why not watch a video from TED-ED about it, but to my shock, there wasn't one!!
thanks =)
Good information
Amazing video! Only caveat in my opinion: "diverse international culture" gets the point across but the term "international" may misleadingly project modern ideas of nationhood into premodern societies.
Hey Ted Ed love your videos but i was wondering if you guys can make an educational video of ear infection it’s fascinating how the ear works and how it suffers thank you.
Ninth comment!
Also I've wanted to see this for ages. Love you Ted ED!
Next video on Kailasa Temple of Elora Caves
Richard Feynman once said that the 10's of 1,000's of books of Mayan civilisation had been reduced down to a mere three. 😳
Fascinating archeological discovery
Sooo... Chichen Itza's advantage is that it have caverns to preserve water so it could withstand drought, but it's downfall was that it had a drought. And to stop the the drought people through dead bodies into the caverns. Makes sense...
Most powerful city is a very BOLD statement.
Maya Empire: deities
Maya Hero Twins
K'uk'ulkan (also known as Quetzalcoatl in Aztec)
Rain deities (Chaac is the only Maya rain deities)
Ix Chel (goddess of the moon)
Nice
Learn from the past,
Understand the present,
Prepare for the future.
The more pressing question is: whatever happened to Chechen Pizza?! It used to be a huge restaurant chain but now nobody can even remember it existed!...
Masterpiece 👏👏❤❤🔥🔥
it’s really informative!
these animations are sick ❤
i know this isnt the point of the video but the fact that sports were considered an important part of religious life/its importance society similar to how it is today makes me really happy- humans are all the same
The Mayan Civilization was never an "Empire" as they did not have a single ruler who ruled over the entire Mayan culture, like the Aztecs. The Mayan civilization were a collection of independent city states each of which had their own independent rulers.
This is such a well known fact about the Mayans, I am quite frankly shocked and disappointed that TED-ed, an organization that focuses on education would get this basic historical fact, wrong.
Good video.
Always wondered what happened to the Chicken Pizza.
¡VIVAN LOS MAYAS! ¡VIVA MÉXICO! ¡VIVA LATINOAMÉRICA! SOMOS UN PUEBLO MILENARIO CON UNA HERMOSA HERENCIA PREHISPÁNICA
THANK YOU!
I love history
Always thought “Chichen Itza” was the cutest name, for some reason 😊
Amazing how ancient Romans made 365 days year and so did Mayans
Please make a video on the rise and fall of “Great British empire”.
It would just be the British empire. Great Britain is the name of the island that has england wales and scotland
Yeahh ,I'm curious too
Do you have time for a miniseries? That story takes awhile
How do you pronounce Chichen Itza, again?
Admirable 💛💚
Will you be posting this video in your spanish channel?
Atte. Una mexicana 🇲🇽
Unnecessary trivia about me: The first time I saw the word Chichen Itza was on a classmate's T-shirt back on elementary school.
I honestly thought it's a word play on chicken pizza 🍕
No offense intended peeps, just little me being silly.
Cool.
Now I know where Dame shot that 3 from, the more ya know
your concern was gold of eldorado
I’m sorry, but when I very first read the title in the thumbnail, I thought it was going to be about some kind poultry dish 😆
Cocoa beans as currency? *Sign me up!* 😁
When you say it was an international city, people from which other countries were present there?
Most likely the Aztec, Inca and even Native American. Would be my first guess.
Have I...been pronouncing 'turquoise' wrong all this while...
It’s a regional thing
cool
Please make "The rise and fall of the British Empire" video. 🇬🇧
That would be a long video. And technically still happening today
The animation of the setting sun is a bit dodgy for a location on the northern hemisphere.
Chichen ItZAHHH
I always love central and south american cultures.
The aztecs could of fought off the spanish if they didn't have so many.
They messed them up the firts time and spain had to come back with more men
Is there a video on Olmec culture.
How did the mayans know there were 365 days in a year? Its got me thinking idk. Why was their unit for their year the same as a culture across the atlantic? Youd think theyd have their own time keeping units they literally have a calendar.
No way is the 9th century the Mayan golden age. Literally the end of the civilization. The Mayans from Chichen Itza also were also sorta islander invaders. When they arrived the Mayans really hated them and tried to repel them. Also Mayans didn't have Empires. They had alliances at best but it was more based on tributary and subjugation rather than imperialism. Chichen Itza was so powerful because the rest of Mayan civilization was struggling. It's hard to compare it with Mayan cities just a couple of centuries earlier when we're seeing the heyday of Calakmul and Mutul/Tikal.
Ted Ed should tell us why the mayans and aztecs were so obsessed with human sacrifices
Religion and other stuff.
Woah
The only issue is the beginning.
Yucatan is part of North America, not Central America.
Central America is part of North America. “Central America” is simply a region.
😂 what a silly thing to whine about. If you look at the globe it’s literally the CENTER of the continent
Central America and the Caribbean are both geopolitically considered to be a part of North America
@@havenless3551 politically yes but geographically they are central
@nic558 It depends, really. There are two different ways to understand the American continent's geography. For what I understand, the USA's system sees it as two continents, North and South Americas. But for many countries, there is only one continent, divided in three regions: North (Canada to Mexico), Central (Belize to Panama and the Caribbean Islands) and South (Colombia to Argentina). I not super familiar with the USA's system but I think Mexico is not considered part of Central America regardless.
I thought Tikal was the most powerful Maya city given the resent Lidar discovery which apparently estimated the population at 100,000 🧐
I heard native america history including maya was wiped away by spanish. Am i right? I dont know their history well. is there many record about them?
Yes it was a beautiful culture although when you have a drought its probably not the best idea to sacrifice people and throw them into your water reserves!
So sad that colonial language killed native language hope and wish latin Americans open there eyes and start reviving there culture and language like Indians did in India. They didn't learn English and forgot native language and culture. Hinduism.
Why is X pronounced as SH?
If only cacoa beans were still a form of currency.
❤❤❤
Yeah I love chicken pizza...
This guy’s voice sounds like a text to speech AI.
Why does it all feel like the narration of some sort of mystical and magical place like a lost Atlantis of some sort? The narrator’s voice as well as the video score sound all too overly flourished. When will the narrative surrounding Mesoamerican civilisations change from the white folclore of mysticism to actually spotlighting the complex development of humanity in these non-European territories?
For a moment there I thought it was a restaurant chain that I'd never heard of.
Skibidi YAAAAAAAA
Calling the Maya civilization an empire is a bit of a stretch... More of a loose confederation of city-states. Great video, though! :)
First!
eight hundred & eighty nine AD*
Winner winner Chichen dinner
They lost there NITHRA that what happened... FACT they kept sacrificing human to regain the NITHRA..... FACT
Ma'alob ts'aa t'aan
Didn't the Mayan people create city states instead of empires just like the Greeks?
yes!
The mayans were cursed by God for their crimes its Intresting to see their fall
Maya in Sanskrit means Illusion.
Way more useful then bible stories. JS
No one is really going to talk about K'uk'ulkan? Just me? Okay
me when i don't know live
You know whats funny though and kinda bad karma was that mexico citu had to move over because spnaish couldn't keep up with the water like the natives did.
😮😢😊😮😢😊