From Dark to Light — Mel Gibson's Apocalypto: An Allegory of Child Trafficking, Torture, and Ritual Sacrifice
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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.
Do you have any resources about it? Books or something?
Don't blame me. All I did was a simple google search. I figured there is no way Mel Gibson would make a mistake of that magnitude. To quote from the Wikipedia article.
"The Maya occupied a territory that is now incorporated into the modern countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador; the conquest began in the early 16th century and is generally considered to have ended in 1697."
The principalities conquered were considered part of the "Late Post-classic" Maya states. Perhaps that's where the disconnect lies.
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.