From Dark to Light — Mel Gibson's Apocalypto: An Allegory of Child Trafficking, Torture, and Ritual Sacrifice
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I mean that region is Christian and Spanish speaking for a reason, too, minus in small tribes and communities where they maintain their Mayan dialects.
Yeah the movie ends with the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors. Not much mystery there.
Which is entirely historically inaccurate because the Mayan civilization collapsed around 800 AD
Actually not quite. There were Mayans around when the Spanish conquered them in the early 1500s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Maya
That is absolutely absurd.The Mayan civilization collapse between the 8th and 9th centuries long before the Conquistadors ever showed up. Just because there were Mayan remnants does not mean the collapse did not happen many centuries earlier. You're full of shit.
Semantics. Incans, Mayans, Aztecs. They're all Mexicans ;)
Not to mention that they were not a collective group. Maya is an umbrella term for the different groups in that area.
Hence why so many different languages exist. Even in tiny Guatemala there are something like 21 different Mayan languages, mostly in regions where many speak very basic or no Spanish (and cannot write)
I served a mission in Veracruz, Mexico when I was still Mormon back from 02-04 and the main dialect for the natives around there if I remember correctly was Naguatl.