What was the downfall of the Maya?????
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The conquistadors destroyed their highly developed agriculture which allowed the growth of cities.  It broke down the hierarchy of their government, too. The chaos of things broke down until it is how it is today.  Their way of life was blocked in many ways from developing toward what it had been.  There are definitely Mayan descendants still living.
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You are nuts!. . .Because the dinosaurs died doesn't mean God failed. . .it means the dinos are in Heaven!  (Except the ones who didn't accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and the ones who were gay dinosaurs, or voted Democrat.)
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What would it destroy? stuff we wouldn't know about anyway unless we dug it up?  I'd say its more useful than destructive.  And if you disagree, go talk to indy about it, he'll probably kick the crap out of you steal your woman and run through some mayan pyramid using his whip to swing from some dramatic cliff.  Thats what archaeology is all about my friend.
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While the web is a wonderful resource, you must be skeptical about the the pages you find.  I suggest not relying upon any site that seems to go "out there" on astrology or calendrics (at least until you have gained some knowledge to differentiate the good from the bad).  Unfortunately, the Maya have now become the center of New-Age spiritualism.  If you are into that, great - surf the web until your heart is content.\n\nFor solid data on the ancient and modern Maya, I would suggest the following links (in the "suggested sources" section below).  I highly suggest following all of the embedded links within the first "mesoweb" link below.
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Better yet, how did Noah feed and contain all those monsterous dinosaurs?\n\nAnswer is: its a big con....there was no ark !\n\nSlim
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The Mayan Long Count calendar doesn't end in 2012. The 12th Baktun of the LC ends on 12-20-2012, making the first day of the 13th Baktun (13.00.00.00.00) 12-21-2012.  (A baktun is 396 years long).\nOn 12-21-2012, there is a grand astronomical alignment that only happens once every 26,000 years.  The sun comes up against the Milky Way, in the area the Mayan thought was the birth canal of the universe (and actually it's quite close to the center of the galaxy).  When the sun comes out the birth canal...it's being reborn.   It is reborn about every  6500 years but this one is the grand rebirth which starts the whole 26,000 year cycle anew.\nEveryone misunderstands and thinks that the world ENDS when the new age begins.  That is the exact opposite of what is going on. Energetically, this world already ended.  I have heard that it ended as long ago as 1987 or as recently as 1999, but it's definitely over.  We're living in an in-between time, waiting to see what will happen.\nRead "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog or my regular website for other information on that day.
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no.  you're going to get a variety of responses ranging from the reasonable, like david's to the utterly ridiculous, like a lot of the others already here.\n\nas for the claims that the crater in the yucatan is supposition or "only a theory" (ever heard these words before?) there is a lot of evidence for it:\n\n"Probably the most convincing evidence for a worldwide catastrophe was the discovery of the crater which has since been named Chicxulub Crater. This so-called smoking gun is centered on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and was discovered by Tony Camargo and Glen Pentfield while working as geophysicists for the Mexican oil company PEMEX. What they reported as a circular feature later turned out to be a crater estimated to be 180 kilometers in diameter. Other researchers would later find that the end-Cretaceous extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs had lasted for thousands of years instead of millions of years as had previously been thought. This would be the final piece of evidence that convinced the vast majority of scientists that this extinction resulted from a point event that is most probably an extra-terrestrial impact and not from increased volcanism and climate change (which would spread its main effect over a much longer time period)."\n\nIt seems to be a bit more than a layer of clay in the ground.\n\nwhether this is worthy enough for biblical mention is debatable, but it seems that such a large impact would have had tremendous effects on any living species at the time, including (as creationists claim) humans.  why is there no mention of it either in the bible or other human cultures?  probably because it happened long before any humans were around.  it would have been a very important event, more important than a lot of the mentioned events in the bible.\n\nand if it is mentioned in the bible, please provide a passage.
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I'm quite sure the last day of the Mayan calender is December 21, 2012.  This is the date of the alien invasion in X-Files canon.  You can find out more information by going to wikipedia.org and doing a search for '2012'.  However, it is more likely than not that the calendar 'ends' because this just happened to be the end of one of their large cycles, and not because they really thought the world was going to end at this time.
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..Hi...Maya died in 2002 ...The song ;Maya; on the album ;Three; is dedicated to her..The cose of death is unknown...\nGreetings!...
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What a wondeful question! Look at the Spanish Inqusition, look at what they did to convert the Mayas and Aztecs, look at what was done to the Indians here in the USA by the pilgrims, all in the name of God, yeah right!
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Apocalypto. It's about the Maya and is entirely in their language.
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The Aztecs had a mega pantheon of gods and practiced human sacrifice to appease more than a few of them. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology
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It is a proven fact that Indigenous peoples were set up for failure. A little history for all of you who are so close minded that you can't even come up with a tangible answer...\n \n In 1786, the United States established its first "Native American" reservation and approached each tribe as an independent nation. This policy remained intact for more than one hundred years. But as President James Monroe noted in his second inaugural address in 1821, treating Native Americans this way “flattered their pride, retarded their improvement, and in many instances paved the way to their destruction.” \n\nIn addition, Monroe observed that America’s westward growth “has constantly driven them back, with almost the total sacrifice of the lands which they have been compelled to abandon. They have claims on the magnanimity and . . . on the justice of this nation which we must all feel.” Despite Monroe’s concern for the plight of Native Americans, his administration successfully removed them from states north of the Ohio River. \n \nYeah, so Monroe, like so many others may have sympathized with our mistreatment, but still did nothing to reverse the continuing cycle of Indigenous peoples suppression!!!
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i personally feel the meteor impact was the cause of the KT extinction - but people should not infer that the impact itself killed everything off - it was the fallout from the impact (the extremely versatile climate) which led to the dinosaurs being unable to adapt to it and dying off
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http://www.earthmatrix.com/orbital/solar_system_maya.htm.\ncheck this out - i am also not sure about the correct answer
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The Mayans were a pre-Colombian civilization.\nYou can go to the site below and type in text from just about any language and it will translate for you.
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The classic book on the subject (and one that started much of the controversy) is anthropologist Christy Turner's book "Man Corn" published in 1999 (Turner is a guy, by the way).\n\nTurner (and other southwestern archaeologists) would occasionally find human remains at prehistoric sites where the bones showed evidenced of having been butchered and cooked (based on cut marks and abrasions on the bones).  Most of these sites are associated with the very end of the Ancestral Puebloan people (also called the Anasazi) who dominated the four corners area of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah and built the famous ruins at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.  Their society collapsed and most of the large settlements were abandoned around 1300AD for reasons that are still widely debated.\n\nTurner and others have theorized that limited food and overpopulation (perhaps coupled with drought and other problems) caused the communities to turn on themselves.  The cannibalism appears to be more ritual in nature rather than for food.\n\nOther archaeologists have disagreed with his conclusions (and to the extent at which it might have happened) and of course, modern native cultures (like the Hopi and Zuni) who are descendants of the Anasazi are not real fond of the theory either.  While it was probably never wide spread or common, it does seem likely that at least a few bands did practice it on occasion during the dark final days of the Anasazi collapse.