Fall of the Aztec & Maya Empires 5/5

Fall of the Aztec & Maya Empires 5/5

When Europe was in the Dark Ages, great cities were flourishing in Central America. This video explores how the Aztec and Mayan empires rose to startling heights and then mysteriously collapsed. When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés landed in 1519 in what is today Mexico, he and his soldiers were dumbfounded by the large cities they encountered. Using innovative computer graphics, this video shows what the great Aztec urban centers might have looked like when Cortés and his men first saw them. The Mayan empire, which flourished before the Aztecs, from approximately 300 to 900 A.D., is also examined in this video, which pays particular attention to how some Mayan influence still resonates in contemporary Mexico. The Mayans and Aztecs developed complex and intelligent societies, and much of their culture is still mysterious to us, but this video does a good job of explaining the basic history of who these people were and how they lived.

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