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Yahoo 'Historians' bashing Mel's Movies
by (movies profile)
Jun 21, 2007
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You guys keep saying Mel was a liar, that there were no Maya city states for hundreds of years before the Europeans arrived.
Once again, Wikipedia proves you wrong, search for "Maya Civilization", since yahoo won't let me post the link.
""During the succeeding Postclassic period (from the 9th to the early 16th century), development in the northern centers persisted, characterized by an increasing diversity of external influences. The Maya cities of the northern lowlands in Yucatan continued to flourish for centuries more; some of the important sites in this era were Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Edzná, and Coba. After the decline of the ruling dynasties of Chichen and Uxmal, Mayapan ruled all of Yucatan until a revolt in 1450. (This city's name may be the source of the word "Maya", which had a more geographically restricted meaning in Yukatek and colonial Spanish and only grew to its current meaning in the 19th and 20th centuries). The area then devolved into city states until the Yucatán was conquered by the Spanish.
The Itza Maya, Kowoj and Yalain groups of Central Peten survived the "Classic Period Collapse" in small numbers and by AD 1250 reconstituted themselves to form competing city-states. The Itza kingdom had its capital at Noj Peten, an archaeological site thought to underlay modern day Flores, Guatemala. It ruled over an area extending across the Peten Lakes region, encompassing the community of Eckixil on Lake Quexil. These sites and this region were inhabited continuously by independent Maya until after the final Spanish Conquest of 1697 AD.
Postclassic Maya states also continued to survive in the southern highlands. One of the Maya kingdoms in this area, the Quiché, is responsible for the best-known Maya work of historiography and mythology, the Popol Vuh.""
SO MEL GIBSON WAS LARGELY CORRECT!!! There were independent Maya City states, and they weren't completely conquered by the Spaniard until the mid 1600's. This collapse that liberals like to talk about was the collapse of the CENTRAL MAYA EMPIRE! This is akin to the collapse of the Roman Empire which eventually led to the Kingdoms of France, England, etc..
And smallpox, which was the plague depicted, spread faster throughout the new world than the Spanish could. There were well connected trade routes throughout. That's why smallpox decimated the Yucatan before the Spanish set foot... it was introduced during the conquest of the Aztec, who fell before the Maya did. ONCE AGAIN... MEL GIBSON WAS LARGELY CORRECT!!!
Learn history and stop spreading your ignorance in order to bash Mel Gibson.
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