Engineering an Empire - The Maya 3/5

Engineering an Empire - The Maya Part 3

At the height of its glory, this mysterious civilization ruled a territory of 125,000 square miles across parts of Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. What began as a modest population of hunters and gatherers expanded into more than forty flourishing city-states who engineered sky-high temple-pyramids, ornate palaces and advanced hydraulic systems. Where did they come from and what catastrophes caused the collapse of this innovative civilization? From the Temple-Pyramids at Tikal, to the royal tomb at Palenque, to the star observatory at Chichén Itzá, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure that enabled the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization.

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Entertainment

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• Engineering
• Empire
• Maya
• Mexico
• Documentary

[iroxalldatime]

seriously. their advancements are literally melting my brain.

[SgtraneMnid]

The americas had master civilizations

[original5productions]

@robotpanda77 absolutely, they did your mother loves mine. Good time had by all

[robotpanda77]

I bet they loved burritos!

[HistoryLover1550]

Pacal was one of the greatest!

[interstellarwonder]

i guess its safe to say ,Mayan mathematics was far superior to Greek mathematics.but christianity says they were pagan and so destroyed all knowledge of that superior mathematics

[ChibiCow15]

I wonder how the Mayans or Maya as the video says, made the aqueducts- did they have men dig tunnels and crawl through to continue making them?

[HoundofOdin]

I really don't think the Maya are "mysterious" anymore. How they disappeared is, but the Maya themselves are not. They just have that New World, lost-city-in-the-jungle exoticness that makes people want to think of them as mysterious. People still want to think about Egypt as mysterious, and I could probably tell you what Pharoh Seti's favorite breakfast was from all the records we have from them.

[armthelandless]

bet it had something to do with famine, maybe a fungus that killed their crops.

[613bo]

ROFL thats why your not them :D