Do you think smoking herb had something to do with the disappearance of the Mayans?

[beachguy in thongs]

They're gone. But their herb isn't.

beachguy in thongs Reviewed by beachguy in thongs on 09-09-2005. Do you think smoking herb had something to do with the disappearance of the Mayans? They're gone. But their herb isn't. Rating: 5

[slipknotpsycho]

i don't know too much about anceint civilazations, but from what i've heard i've made the assertion that most (if not all) ancient civilazations simply "moved on" to another land and became known as something completely diffrent by others.... hell for all we know, what were the mayans migrated to canada (remember i stated i don't know too much) and are today's "canadians" it's believed by most that even believe in atlantis (from a scientific point of view and peicing together clues) that there was a catastrophic volcano, and those that did make it off the island were out at sea for many many days if not weeks, and landed on diffrent continents (those that survived the trip) where they just simply mixed in with the current residents and they "became no more"

[F L E S H]

Mayans, I believed , were simply absobed into the Aztec empire when the latter grew exponantially. Then, literally, they all moved to Mexico City, which is one of the reasons it's the biggest city in the world.

[beachguy in thongs]

Sounds interesting, I wonder why it's been thought for a long time that an entire race just disappeared. I wonder what kind of debates people have about this.

[ermitonto]

The Mayans are still alive and kicking. They just don't have their own empire anymore. There are still large parts of rural Guatemala and rural southern Mexico where the Mayan languages are the speech of everyday life, and Spanish is just something learned in school to communicate with people from farther away.

[beachguy in thongs]

Sounds interesting, Ermontito, do you think they just adopted the language, maybe through connections with the tribe?
Any other disappearing races of humanity?

[ermitonto]

The Mayan language and culture have been in continual use by the indigenous people of the region for thousands of years. The Aztecs, the Mayans, the Incans...all their languages and cultures are still thriving, but under the rule of the nation-states that Spain left behind. As for other "disappearing" peoples, they're all over the place, especially in the Americas. As a linguistics major, I can tell you that the vast majority of Native American languages are extinct or heading in that direction. The most widely spoken of them, and one of the very few with a body of speakers that is actually growing, is Navajo, which only has 100,000 speakers. Most of the Native American languages which still persist have a few dozen elderly speakers at the most, and scientists are scrambling to find out as much as possible about their languages and lifestyles before they vanish off the face of the planet. Fortunately this is not so severe in Central and South America, but it doesn't look like many of these tribes have much hope of retaining what they have left for very long.

[Ferre]

Look up your history. The Spanish Inquisition killed every single person they could kill and destroyed and melted down their cities because of the gold.

Those cultures have been helped by Xtianity to vanish... as so many on this planet.

[beachguy in thongs]

Why isn't anyone else bringing up Spanish Kings instead of Bush? Or Hitler?

[SomeGuy]

a good question, but it can be asked about many many many many people in history....people just care about the most recent ones in history...what about the man on the $20? Andrew Jackson was responsible for the the deaths of thousands and thousands of native americans, even though some such as the Cherokee had became useful parts of society(as they had been asked) he still killed and marched them away. He was also known for giving orders to shoot people for disobedience. Theres proof that he even had a 17 year old boy shot for refusal to clean up a mess. As much as I love this Country, I have to remember its built over the blood of others.