Engineering an Empire - The Maya - pt2

[dumoulin11]

What an unfortunate crown @ 6:54, and those striped long feathers are plain old Ring-necked pheasant which the white people had not introduced to the new world yet.

[maxillusionist]

those where same people as people in old world.. cant see much diference.. just becouse catholic church never been there before Columbo.. doesnt mean anything.. i can se croses like those in greece, macedonia and everywhere in america too.. swastikas & piramyds also.. big stone balls like in bosnia.. as a metter of fact in Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia we use term for village - Palanka, which is to me similar as Palenke.. also word for Hell or something so bad as Hell is Pakao, similar to Pakal...

[nick10409]

AWESOME!!!!!



[louis1439]

theis s gay

[landovida]

@louis1439 sicuramente come la tua mamma.

[Kulmataklaus]

Interesting, thank you for uploading.

[dock534]

am I the only one who caught the pheasant feathers on the crown head dress

[thenewend2012]

hey what about Copan?

[GPunktmod]

weller would make a good fritzl

[diedahero]

Can you even think of finding something like that?

3 years to dig it all the way out...amazing.

[TitanSubZero15]

Something I can't get, the Mayans had metal..METAL!!!! But why didn't they use it?

[montyelarry]

Because in the last segment they said that the more human labor that went into building something, the more value it had to them.

[ADRIANR2D]

my ancestors just didnt want to.

[LappalingurII]

Because alot of effort would have gone into mining, extracting, smelting and forging metals, especially with their level of technology. Thus, it was much quicker and cheaper to just use flint and obsidian, which is also much sharper than most metals (obsidian is used in eye-surgeries today).

[HoundofOdin]

They probably didn't want to use it. I know iPhones can do more than a basic cell phone, but I like basic cell phones better. Same basic idea.

[hardassteel]

@TitanSubZero15 It says in the video, the people owed labor to the king annually. Building structures without metal required more labor which resulted in a more valuable building.

[landovida]

@TitanSubZero15 Can you refer me to an article or paper that says that the Mayans had metal? I'm curious to know b/c I always hear that the were living in the Stone Age, and that gets annoying after a while. Thanks :)

[scipioninja]

@TitanSubZero15

Maybe because they didn't have one idea of what to do with it?

[RobCrazyTrain]

i going to revive all the mesoamerican religon

[lifes40123]

first u gotta kill all the people who is christian in mexico lol

[LappalingurII]

Good luck =)

[mquallet]

Cmon. Thats some mighty fine storytelling there from 2:45 to 6:00.....

[jirokun1]

ahh robocop!

[LordLebu]

Have you noticed that Mayan cities look like Ankor Wat and Indonesian temples !

[shiningIvory]

They look nothing like eachother, you crazy UFO conspiracy theorist. =P

[LordLebu]

Take a look at candi sukuh temple in Indonesia . Where did I talk of ufos ? There could been cultural contact .

[shiningIvory]

I'M KIDDING!

[lifes40123]

yeah they kinda do.

[JoshSitar]

Absolutely there are similarities. I don't know why your comment got so many thumbs down; people are stupid.

Graham Hancock has a good program detailing these similarities and his theories on why these similarities exist.

[gregoriokafka]

Robocop (aka Murphy) needs a fix in his knees...

[KHLover1994]

I thought Weller was RoboCop

[DarthNithilues]

in medieval 2 kingdoms you can be meso american civilations and drive out the europeans u can be aztecs mayans apache tlaxlans tarascans and the chimec tribes and new spain its realy fun

[gregoriokafka]

??????????

[LordLebu]

That game rox xD

[Rythmboy]

good video

[ns230061]

hey retard krayzie189 when did maya make the european civilization to the knees?

[Krayzie189]

Being a Honduran-American, i admire the Maya people so much there were Super,Super Intelligent,Superior and Brilliant and i at the same time, equally Brutal,Vicious,Ruthless and Savage. They make EVERY SINGLE European "Civilization" get on there Knees and cry

[lordzeno666]

Except that meso-American civilizations grew in a bubble, protecting them from outside influences from other civilizations. Brutal yes, but western civilizations put up with people of the Steppes harrassing them for thousands of years, honing warfare and tech to such a degree that they would be destined to sweep the beauty of the isolated American civs aside. With tech and disease, which shaped the west.

[AdrianLugo18]

lol you got it totally backwards mate....if europe was in a "bubble" like mesoamerica...it would have never had the things it had...gun powder , compasses from china...number systems from india..architecture influences from egypt and others..etc etc....where as in mesoamerica all the technology and knowledge was home grown...they didnt have the luxury of trading technology and ideas with other civilizations the way the old world civilizations did with each other

[lifes40123]

thats probably why they didnt have enough knowlege to make iron and other metals. they did make copper tho or was it bronze?

[landovida]

@AdrianLugo18 Adrian you are right. They deserve more merit but they don't since history teaches something else about these cultures.

[landovida]

@AdrianLugo18 I like what you say. You are absolutely correct, but let's hope that we can seek a path toward reconciliation.

[teeeez1]

What are you talking about? Yes the Maya were great people and ingenious in what they did but they didn't bring all European civilizations to it's knees. In fact, it is very hard for any civilization to compare itself to that of the Greeks for example who laid the foundation for western civilization. And as Lordzeno666 says, they grew in a bubble protect...that's why they flourished so well where as the Greeks were in constant war and expanded to the corners of the known world.

[RickWarrenisjesus]

Well, technically after awhile, the Greeks were just slaves and completely subservient to the Romans...and then as usual, the entire history of the civilized world is one empire falling, only to be renewed and revitalized by another newer one.

It could have been around the other way with disease I guess..if conquistadors had brought something nasty back, but euros already put up with much disease & were toughened to much of it.

[Brennafugg]

except that "European Civilization" didn't stop 2000 years ago. We didn't stop at stone buildings and feathers for clothes.

[YamaKazoo]

@Krayzie189 even the spanish civilization, sry but it had to said

[liquidsnake123]

waaaghhead-In you dreams fucker!Vikings were savages!No writing system just a bunch of barbarians.

[iceblackcherry]

'i thought i was in a pretty good shape ..' *mr weller continues to hike up* omg peter weller is so funny .. thanks so much for uploading this. maya culture is interesting!

[mille324]

dang