Apocalypto-MesoAmerica and Mel Gibson

    This is a movie about an ancient Mayan civilization and I think this is absolutely awsome because first off, I think Mel Gibson is a great director. Second, this is like the first time I ever heard about a movie about a Meso-American civilization. This movie is gona be soo cool!!!

Check this link out to see the trailer and stuff!

Apocalypto Trailer

I hear than the Movie will be spoken in Maya. Is that correct?

By the way, I love the movie "New World". A great artistic job.

Pinguin 

Yep, it was said earlier that it will be in native languages.

Don't tell me the movie is about the founding of Belize!!!

When did the British arive in Belize? In the 17th century?
Weren't the Maya already decimated by deseases by then?

Originally posted by Mixcoatl When did the British arive in Belize? In the 17th century? Weren't the Maya already decimated by deseases by then?

The thing that Paul and I were saying was a joke(parody of Braveheart plot) and the Maya were decimated before the Spaniards came.

Originally posted by Mixcoatl When did the British arive in Belize? In the 17th century? Weren't the Maya already decimated by deseases by then?

Originally posted by pinguin Originally posted by Mixcoatl When did the British arive in Belize? In the 17th century? Weren't the Maya already decimated by deseases by then?   That's one of the biggest lies of historians: "decimated by diseases".   Yes, many Native Americans suffered a lot of mortality when got in touch with the Europeans, but that DOES NOT MEAN they become extinct !!!!

I never said they were extict, I said they were decimated. What happened to the Native Americans in the 16th century was the single biggest demographic catastrophe in world history. Up to 100 million people died, Mexico's population declined by 95% (the number of people living in Mexico in 1520 wasn't reached again before 1950), in some parts of the Americas there are still less people living now than in 1492.

This is in no way an attempt to minimize or play down the Native Americans. On the contrary, it is exactly because this demographic catastrophe that Native Americans became neglected by historians. If it weren't for desease, I don't even think Europeans would ever have managed to conquer the continent.

btw, have you read 1491?

The total cultivated acreage in just the Amazon basin alone would have comfortably fed 70-90 million people.  If there were only 15-25 million tops, why would they expend that energy to produce that much food. {source- Univ. of Penn. Amazon Civilizations Project]  Yes, I know it's all a HOAX! LIES,LIES, all LIES.  But humor me, pinguin, your always saying we underestimate the indigenous peoples, isn't it possible you have done the same?

Originally posted by pinguin Originally posted by Mixcoatl When did the British arive in Belize? In the 17th century?Weren't the Maya already decimated by deseases by then? That's one of the biggest lies of historians: "decimated by diseases". Yes, many Native Americans suffered a lot of mortality when got in touch with the Europeans, but that DOES NOT MEAN they become extinct !!!! Very few Native groups become extinct because killings or contagious diseases. But there where some that were OVERCROWDED and OUTNUMBERED by foreigners of European and/or African origin. In the Caribbean, for example, the Tainos "become extincted" because they intermarry with whites, and lost theirs culture in the process. Most people of the Caribbean, regardless of their aspect, carry Amerindian genetic markers. Pinguin

    
Decimated is the not the same as extinct. The point here is that their civilization was in declined due to a rapid population loss.