Engineering an Empire - The Maya 2/5

Engineering an Empire - The Maya Part 2

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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• Engineering
• Empire
• Maya
• Mexico
• Documentary

[bbmmac92]

Maya Temple Beats RoboCop

[ramses1]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!

[Graham6762]

I wonder if their writing was like hieroglyphics or if the pictographs had a sentence in each.

[TheDusteMikkel]

loooool.. im sorry but i could not stop noticing the name "lady suck cock" xD

[billz12oz]

Watching this in history class right now

[xOxKurdParstxOx]

They were great Engneers! Everyone must admit! Really! much better than many others! Not in beauty of course but in High,volume of their mighty piramids, how could mankind with stone age and these simple basic methods and tools build all these big mighty buildings! amazing.

[meminpinguin41]

@asianthor More info is been discovered, and FIRE IS BORN is a central figure, is not clear if he was a ruler, a prince or just a commander, but at the begining of the Mayan top years he was there. And that is what this documental is missing.

Fire is Born needs to be included, Check: Maya Rise and fall.

[meminpinguin41]

@asianthor More info is been descovered, and FIRE IS BORN is a central figure, is not clear if he was a ruler, a prince or just a commander, but at the begining of the Mayan top years he was there. And that is what this documental is missing.

Fire is Born needs to be included, Check: Maya Rise and fall.

[asianthor]

@meminpinguin41 How can you say that Teotihucan was @ the begining of the Mayan timeline when @ the cuenca of El Mirador(the cradle of the maya civilization) is hundreds or thousand yr's older than Teotihuacan or Tikal. Nakbe arose bet 1,400-1,600bc and maybe even Nakbe is not the oldest cause in the pacific coast of Guatemala theres a place call La Blanca that theres evidence the Maya started in that region 1,800-1,600bc and had contact with the Olmec's.

[meminpinguin41]

@asianthor This documental is missing a very important piece of Mayan history, the beginning.

This is when Teotihuacan ruler send FIRE IS BORN to Wacka(Guatemala) and conquest Tikal also in Guatemala and begin the greatest era of the Mayan civilization.

Fire is Born is very important in the creation of the empire.