Now before you twats hack away at your keyboards about how I didn't search on google, I did and couldn't find any concise answers.
I was talking to a few people today who were discussing the Mayan civilisation, and I've got some questions.
What happened to the Mayans? I was reading online and they told me that the Mayans disappeared without a trace - another suggestion was that they blended into other cultures.
Were the Mayans a monotheistic nation? I read somewhere online when I searched that said this was true.
Just need someone with a bit of historical knowledge in them to clear this up.
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technically, it was only the major southern cities that "collapsed" during the 7-9th century. Northern cities remained culturally and politically Mayan, though there was less unity. By the time the Spanish arrived in the following centuries, many of these cities were either their own Empires with Mayan origins, or decentralized Maya "city-states"
as **** like as it might be, nobody here will give you a better run-down of the collapse than:
EDIT: twats, ****. Interesting, the singular is censored....
It appears very difficult to tell, because traditional Mayan beliefs have been interpreted through, and modified by, the Roman Catholicism of the Spanish. I could paraphrase, but this paragraph from Wiki seemed most illustrative:
to me, at least, it seems much more like the Gods of East Asia/Korea especially, and the rest of the Wiki on "Mayan religion" seems to talk more extensively about anscestor worship than diety worship
EDIT: actually, maybe it is more like the African Loa.... (I know Loa is the Carribian version, I totally forget what they are called in Africa though)
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Mayans and other cultures in the area have been reliant on access to fresh water via sink holes...Likely that during periods of drought when the water level in these sinkholes dropped that they simply couldn't access it.
Probably didn't help that they used these same sinkholes to give sacrifices to the Gods...I wouldn't want to drink water with dead bodies festering in it.
Makes sense to me; most of what they told me was just some conspiracy stuff about aliens yadayadayada.
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I'm not sure about the specifics but South Americans also had alot of contact with West Africans I think specifically the Mandingo and that was before the Spanish arrived.
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Ok off the top of my head. Europeans travellers were told that black people had been there before them. There are statues of african people and pictures. Some natives took some african words and they also had took at least one god from the mandingo which was a wolf god. I might not be exactly right about the specifics but its in this book.
Maya history isn´t conspiracy, they existed and just because someone asks about them it doesn´t mean it refers to the 2012 calendar thing.
Chritians probably wiped most of them out, they were good at that style of conversion, convert or die. Reminds me of the necromongers (Riddick)
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Taken from a site I googled and found in a matter of seconds (what a **** I am
Many of the Yucatan Mayans whose ancestors were hunters, chicle farmers and fisherman now work in hotels and other tourist related businesses. More than 350,000 Mayans living in the Yucatan speak Yukatek
By who? Its not actually far fetched at all. The Vikings 'discovered' Americe and as far as I can remember even the Romans and possibly Greeks have. I'm pretty sure hes not the only historian who has this opinion I think Basil Davidson does as well.
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