Engineering an Empire - The Maya 1/5

[Graham6762]

The people who upped your comment are retarded. The Europeans didn't even know what biological warfare was, and all civilizations attacked each other. Your ignorance is astounding, life was short and violent. You really had to be ruthless just to survive.

[Saeedofwar]

@iamthebest91 That my friend is called war

[andypmz07]

sounds abit like modern times... :/ Things are falling apart now... Just imagine In a few hundred years they will be documentaries about the countries we live in now.

[rachelmae007]

@thebeatlesea... i did.

[thebeatlesa]

How can anyone watch this without it being Homework?

[iLOVENATURE2011]

yes...until now, its been the main question and wonder....how were they able to build ziggurats without using cranes and other machines?? cool...

[HistoryHmoobGuy]

The best empire = CHINA

[Ariminua]

@gaelic00barbarian It was about riches, glory, territory, and a new 'heathan' people to convert to Catholicism; atleast for the Spanish. And to make imperialism sound like it belong to just one race is foolish.

[RuralCoconut]

@Ariminua ...No, it was whitey and his need for greed.

[Ariminua]

@RuralCoconut If Imperialism only belonged to whites, then why has it been used by all other races of the Earth? Don't be a racist.

[Ariminua]

@gaelic00barbarian Don't make it sound like it was about race. It was the goal for the imperialist Europeans to conquer the numerous peoples of the Americas.

[alejandromed22]

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[Lupitamontoya1]

I LOVE EVERITHING ABT THE PAST THANKS FOR POSTING IT =D

[bolognadetector]

2:55 Peter Weller comes out of nowhere and gives everyone the real scoop!

[HistoryLover1550]

The Maya were just as war like as other mesoamerican civilizations.

[HistoryLover1550]

Vote up if you saw and liked 'Apocalyto"

[HistoryLover1550]

Love this series!

[skeeno13]

i know that the aztecs fought the spaniards but did the mayans??

[HistoryLover1550]

@skeeno13 The Mayans fought the spanish in many battles which took place in many of their cities. The spanish conquered them one by one.

[MPLNtodopormexico]

@skeeno13 yes

[HistoryLover1550]

@skeeno13 The Mayans did fight the spanish, they won a few yet the spanish destroyed some of their cities like they did Tenochtitlan and smallpox also afflicted and killed them.

[MeridaMaya]

Anyone no where I can download this for free? :D

[interstellarwonder]

@MeridaMaya

DL a youtube downloader that DLs mp4 vids

[crushesonlycrushyou]

thank you so much for posting this up!

[Damondeeh20]

1000 years before christ? is that the truth?

[landovida]

yes it's true.

[drki11joy123]

Yes.

[N00bcrunch3r]

@Damondeeh20

Really depends on when you think the civilization truly started: if the Maya have to have had cities and dynasties to count as a civilization, then it would have started around 300 B.C.; but if they are only required to exist in some way, shape, or form, then their civilization would have started around 2,000 B.C.

[crypter27]

Any civilization once it gets older,becomes war like & blood thirsty.

[613bo]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL so its irelivant

[xlovexInfinity204]

what happened when the european first come to Maya & after? aobut their technologies , Life & religio--

Please answer this question, I need it.--

Thanks 4 the document

[HistoryLover1550]

@xlovexInfinity204 When the spanish first came Mayan civilization was facing decline and cities were being abandoned. Their technologies got lost as war, crop failures and other factors led to the decline. Mayan life and religion changed, many mayans were converted to christianity yet they held onto much of their culture and some mayans still worship their ancestral gods today.

[reilijs]

bad movie. poor information. mislead

[IzzyIsou]

Interesting subject, but Peter Weller ruined it for me.

[perron00]

I like Andean culture best its more ancient

[bishop102]

meso american was much better, Andeans were'nt literate and they were conquered by 150 spaniards.

[crypter27]

Are you sure? I heard the Maya were gone long before the Spainiards came.

[iamthebest91]

The only reason the spaniards defeated anyone in the Americas was through biological warfare, making allies who they'd later suppress, killing babies and other acts of terror and immorality.

[landovida]

Don't spread the Black Legend any further. We're all people of reason.

[PakistaniisPower]

@iamthebest91 Wrong, its the european's diseases, (white men disease). Germs and stuff like that

[YaxKukMo1426]

@iamthebest91 Certainly the Spaniards introduced diseases, but they were diseases they had no real understanding of, or knowledge that the natives had no resistance to those illnesses. They certainly didn't wage "biological warfare". The Spaniards had Toledo steel, gunpowder and the military discipline of the European battlefield, all of which allowed them to crush almost any oppostion they encountered in the New World

[HungarianNationalist]

@YaxKukMo1426

The disease that killed so many Native Americans was Black Death, the same disease that almost wiped out the White race about 200 years earlier. Many people got infected. Most died, some survived. They gained immunity, and their descendants inherited it. We are descendants of those survivors, so if we were sent to the 1300s with a time machine, we would survive, because we inherited immunity to the disease from our ancestors who survived the disease back then.

[Northax]

@YaxKukMo1426 Nah, not that alone. Didn't matter what technology they had, all that stuff could not help the numbers of native people being killed. The Native Americans vastly outnumbered the Spaniards, so the Spaniards did not fight all by themselves. They recruited Native tribes to fight against other Native tribes, among other things like the diseases they brought which many Natives did not have natural immunity to.

[ejr23]

@iamthebest91 True, but human sacrifice is okay? That's what we call a double standard.

[votumseparatum1]

@ejr23 America and Europe make human sacrifices everyday : bombing the shit out of third world countries.

[Northax]

@ejr23 Maya people willingly sacrificed themselves because they thought it was pleasing their sun or rain gods, so their gods would keep the sun rising and rain falling. They didn't just kill themselves for "fun". Big difference.

[ejr23]

@Northax That's just plain disturbing right there. 

[Northax]

@ejr23 I'm not saying I agree with their sacrificial beliefs, but for them, it was thought of as necessary for the world to continue. They did not murder for fun, though. There is a difference, but people seem to want to mix the two.

[stiffex]

@Northax The sacrifices were mainly soldiers who had accepted it as an honour bestowed by fate so it was young men of military age who were sacrificed the exact same group that are sacrificed by todays empire. Its also a good way of controlling population growth & political unrest.

[audijam]

@Northax Exactly, adding that we shouldn't judge them with our current moral values, simply cuz the social and historic context is totally different.

[leafproject]

@iamthebest91 plus they brought up disease and pest with their ships to cripple the people. well that seems to be unintended but it helps them. its good that this post still have good air around it. very nice discussion.

[netbetset]

@iamthebest91 thats war and nothing has changed

[zooch79]

@iamthebest91 it's funny when the spaniards did it, it was immoral. But when the Mayas did it. Well they were just doing what they do... Can't have it both ways. What goes around, comes around.

[oscargurses]

said = sad

[HistoryLover1550]

@crypter27 They were, by the time Cortez came to Mexico the Mayan civilization waslong gone.

[LobsterPotsticker]

@HistoryLover1550 no it was there

just some of the big cities were abandoned

[HistoryLover1550]

@LobsterPotsticker You're right!

[landovida]

I completely agree. South Americans say the Incas were the greatest civilization in the Americas but I doubt it since it only took "150" men to conquer them. Mesoamerica is the crater of Americas' civilizations.

[McConsumer]

lol then you LOOOVE Babylon, right?

Mesopotamia-side, son!!