Ancient Apocalypse - The Maya Collapse 5/5

Ancient Apocalypse: The Maya Collapse Part 5

For over a thousand years, the Maya built a civilization in the jungle -- creating pyramids, sculptures and paintings. Then around 800 A.D., they practically vanished. Scientific sleuth Dick Gill has spent nearly twenty years proving his theory that a devastating drought wiped out the Maya. The program follows Gill on a journey of discovery: to an archaeological site in Belize, where there is evidence of a sudden abandonment; with geologists as they take cores from a remote lake in Mexico s Yucatan that shows evidence of an exceptional drought at the time of the Maya collapse; and visiting the slopes of the rumbling volcano of Popocatepetl, to search for evidence of an eruption that may have triggered a drought.

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• Ancient
• Apocalypse
• Maya
• Collapse

[Hrimpurstala]

@Traat912

It isn't the lack of drinking water - but the failure of high intensity agriculture. People survived - but only a portion, and they went back to more traditional pre-agricultural and low intensity agriculture. However the civilisation shattered.

[megatrollwarlock]

@Traat912 Of course they predicted a dry season. Dry seasons every few hundred years are common over there. This one was just the worst one in 7000 years.

[YaxKukMo1426]

@imbakk4good The please shit out one imbakk!!!! I'm sure the Mayanists at UCL, Harvard, Yale and UT Austin would be fascinated to hear.

[YaxKukMo1426]

@Traat912 I'd hardly call the worst drought in 7000 years a "little fucking dry season". Animals in deserts may be able to migrate to other areas (many also die) but the Maya lowlands were a greatly overcrowded and environmentally degradated landscape. There was nowhere left to go.

[thoostorm4]

@cbmaika smzrter than any u tube phuk face

[imbakk4good]

Man I could shit out a better explanation for the collapse of the Mayan Civilization. This is guy is a fucking retard.

[Traat912]

What a stupid bunch of bullsh*t. I mean...Mayans as they are seen as mathematics and GREAT astronomers who see cycles of universe in front, couldn't predict a little fu*king dry season? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Animals in desert are capable of traveling the land on dry seasons for hundreds of miles to water... ANIMALS who know sh*t about astronomy lmao! And then ur telling me that animals are smarter than Mayas were back then? Dick needs to get his attention some other way! He's pathetic!!

[cbmaika]

they got a hippy forensic specialist  haha

[SPS148669]

I like these videos because the once mighty Japanese Empire is now collapsing right now much like the Roman and Mayan Empires did but with tsunami, earthqauke and Nuclear Radiation and heavy debt bringing them down. Karma is a bitch for being imperialist and greedy!

[vk45de]

so the murdered family were just priests who failed.... ok all the drama and it's not even anything large scale