Rise of the Maya

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  • čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
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    Deep in the Yucatan Peninsula lie ancient stone cities reclaimed by the jungle, where a calendar dominated lives, majestically feathered kings ruled like gods and tall stone pyramids soared above the treetops. There in those jungles, stand ancient stones etched with dates and writings that tell the story of one of history’s most fascinating and dynamic civilisations. These belong to the ancient Maya. A people that made advancements in architecture, mathematics, and astronomy that we can still learn from today.
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    Sources:
    Micheal D. Coe - The Maya 9th Edition
    Loa Traxler, Robert Sharer - Origins of Maya States
    New Perspectives - The Ancient Maya
    J. Eric Thompson - Maya History and Religion
    Grant Jones - The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
    Simon Martin Nikolai Grube - Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens
    Dennis Tedlock - Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition
    Tatiana Proskouriakoff - Album of Maya Architecture
    Production Music courtesy of Derek & Brandon Fiechter / @derekbrandonfiechter )
    Songs used:
    Civilisation V Montezuma Peace Theme
    Brandon And Derek Fiechter - Dark Rainforest
    Brandon And Derek Fiechte - The Legend of El Dorado
    Brandon And Derek Fiechte - Aztec Jungle
    Brandon And Derek Fiechte - Aztec Temple
    Brandon And Derek Fiechte - Mayan Village

Komentáře • 1,3K

  • @chejocs155
    @chejocs155 Před 5 lety +248

    As someone from Guatemala, THANK YOU!!!!!! Keep doing videos of this topic! I invite you to visit my country and see Tikal and Jaguar Temple, its incredible.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +24

      Thanks for watching, there will be 2 more episodes, so stick around. :-)

    • @anneblubaugh58
      @anneblubaugh58 Před 4 lety +1

      I bet

    • @arturomullermatheu4364
      @arturomullermatheu4364 Před 3 lety +5

      @Rhizosphere thanks you make our country more relevant

    • @JoseMorales-wk6om
      @JoseMorales-wk6om Před 2 lety

      @@trikebeatstrexnodiff mayas where in mexico el salvador honduras and mexico and Aztecs where only in mexico

  • @rjhacker
    @rjhacker Před 3 lety +38

    My professor of Mayan civilization translated that edition of the Popul Vuh. Sadly, he passed away recently. It was a privilege learning from him

  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +317

    If you are new here, here is our playlist on the Incan Empire: goo.gl/qRTxbA
    The first one who mentions the aliens gets a bad wig, and his life will thus be broadcasted in 360p.

    • @Koopinator
      @Koopinator Před 5 lety +55

      But you're the first to mention aliens...

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +103

      That settles it. All videos will be in 360p from now on. :-)

    • @Koopinator
      @Koopinator Před 5 lety +53

      Cool, Now i'll be able to watch them on Internet Explorer.

    • @alecsis882
      @alecsis882 Před 5 lety +4

      Kings and Generals Nooooooooo

    • @christermi
      @christermi Před 5 lety +3

      Koopinator ‍ lmao :-)

  • @TheHistoryofSpainPodcast
    @TheHistoryofSpainPodcast Před 5 lety +459

    Perfect timing, precisely today in 1562 Fray Diego de Landa ordered the burning of many Mayan codex that could have been used to understand better the Mayan religion and history.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +102

      We'll get there.

    • @moviejose3249
      @moviejose3249 Před 5 lety +61

      I hope some Mayans took a few thousand codices and buried them in a cave or inside a pyramid. May what a discovery that would be.

    • @yiledute
      @yiledute Před 5 lety +20

      Movie Jose at this point that is almost impossible. There are no more ruins to explore, we could dig deeper but that would compromise the structures, and since some of them are some of the world's patrimony it is quite illegal to destroy them.

    • @yiledute
      @yiledute Před 5 lety +1

      Well you are wrong, I am mexican and I haven't heard either read of any real discovery for a long time now

    • @bulukmayanwarfare1267
      @bulukmayanwarfare1267 Před 5 lety +16

      It is a shame that alot of knowledge of the maya have been lost due to these burnings.

  • @GarroStudio
    @GarroStudio Před 5 lety +979

    Fun Fact! The Maya are still around. They make up a smaller demographic in the Yucatan and are mostly very poor.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu Před 5 lety +293

      There are still 5 million Maya in the Yucatan and they still speak Maya languages. Most I think are rural farmers and some still use the old Maya calendars and follow old Maya traditions.

    • @moviejose3249
      @moviejose3249 Před 5 lety +61

      I am sure this helped scientists in figuring out the stuff on the codices ie language and calendar etc

    • @OMC1109
      @OMC1109 Před 5 lety +213

      Is not fun fact, they mostly are very poor, as many indigenous people of this continent, because in the hispanic order they were in the base of economic pyramid... well, at least they were not be almost exterminated as peoples in territories colonized by british... Sadly at this time racial discrimination still continue...

    • @bulukmayanwarfare1267
      @bulukmayanwarfare1267 Před 5 lety +36

      Ancient Aliens probably made people think that they were all gone.

    • @emmanuelake421
      @emmanuelake421 Před 5 lety +79

      In Mexico the majority is indigenous only that many chose to forget their ancient culture and have a more modern culture, since you can see people from Mexico with surnames in some indigenous language but with a more current culture, since we know that you can not get there away in Mexico if we do not do that because there is a lot of discrimination against indigenous languages, clothing, traditions and religion.

  • @dcloukey
    @dcloukey Před 5 lety +445

    The missing history on the western hemisphere is mind bogiling to me. We are so rich in eastern hemisphere history yet we know little of the thousands of years in the Americas. Things were happening, wars where fought. cities were born and destroyed and we know little to nothing about most of it. Thanks for this video and the others you have done about the inca and Aztec. Great work cant wait for the next one.....dont get me wrong
    .there all awsome, I just really enjoy the history you have dug up on pre European America. Thanks again

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +35

      Thanks for watching, more on the way!

    • @bulukmayanwarfare1267
      @bulukmayanwarfare1267 Před 5 lety +34

      Almost like a separate planet. It's always great to see a video on mesoamerican culture.

    • @aduarte8057
      @aduarte8057 Před 5 lety +14

      dcloukey It's so obvious why they do that. You don't understand what's happening in the Indigenous community all over Turtle Island.

    • @groverX56
      @groverX56 Před 5 lety +71

      One major reason for why there's little history is because much of it was burned and destroyed during the conquest, and what ever survived never made it to our history books because history has been taught by the victors.

    • @azzzanadra
      @azzzanadra Před 4 lety +8

      the old world was connected, each Continent can be visited easily, that is not the case with the new world.

  • @nodosa994
    @nodosa994 Před 5 lety +150

    I am totally loving the history of the Americas. It's funny, i have read and learned much about the Aztecs since they are the pride of Mexico, but the Mayans are sadly swept under the rug for far too long. I am eager to see what else the Yucatan peninsula has to offer. Cheers and great work, keep it up!

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +8

      Will do, there will be more!

    • @bulukmayanwarfare1267
      @bulukmayanwarfare1267 Před 5 lety +19

      That is true. When people here ancient mexico they think of the aztecs but barely mention the zapotecs, mixtecs and the maya. Even the Tarascans of michocaun are barely mentioned.

    • @juanrodriguez9876
      @juanrodriguez9876 Před 4 lety +1

      There were more Native Indians in Mexico like that northern Mexico Indian end the middle american Indian huichol end cora cahita tepehuan yaqui tarahumara diegueno seri comacheros Comanche Kickapoo Navajo killiwa Apaches mayos karankawa Nahua totonac tzeltal and many more

    • @wynty200
      @wynty200 Před 3 lety +5

      Never really really understood why the Maya are so understudied and appreciated. As a civilisation the Maya seem vastly more interesting and, unlike the Aztecs, it is actually an ancient civilisation.

    • @etruscancivilization
      @etruscancivilization Před rokem

      @@juanrodriguez9876 Also the Atakapa Black American Natives who were located in my home state of Southwest Louisiana that stretched into parts of Texas and who were feared by Mexican natives ad many others around the area. Some of the Black native American Tribes states that their history in the area goes back more than 4,000 yrs, along with the Karankawa. The large land area that was controlled by either the Karankawa/Atakapa which European colonizers stole was very rich in "Sugar Cane" production and was later referred to as "Sugarland". So yeah, racist video will not mention those ancient Black Native Americans, and have ignorant people believe that all American Blacks came over on slave ships when it is a fact that Black Native Americans were there thousands of years before the transatlantic slave trade which took most Africans to Latin American countries like Brazil, Haiti, DR, and not to the American colonies. Many dark skin Native Americans were later classified as African Americans, when in reality they were simply Black Native Americans who were not a part of the enslaved African arrivals.. Also, I like when seeing the FAKE cartoon depictions of Mayans who mostly had jet black and dark brown (milk chocolate) skin colors being shown to resemble American TV $5 dollar Indians who say "me Tonto, you Lone Ranger, Kimo Savvy"...lol

  • @chumunga648
    @chumunga648 Před 5 lety +752

    You mean to t ell me, there was no aliens involved here?!
    But...but History channel told me there would be aliens!

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +142

      We are lying. :-)

    • @CelineAdobea
      @CelineAdobea Před 5 lety +12

      I def. think they ascended and left Earth because they were ready and willing :)

    • @CelineAdobea
      @CelineAdobea Před 5 lety +3

      ​@Raymond Morales Why does that have to mean that none of them ever left? 🕸

    • @meinpizza8144
      @meinpizza8144 Před 5 lety +3

      @@KingsandGenerals UNSUBSCRIBED

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +7

      @@meinpizza8144 8 months!

  • @KaaxItzam
    @KaaxItzam Před 5 lety +210

    A very good introduction on the Mayans, I should note that the Mayans had a lot more animals that could be domesticated than on the list on the video, turkey, peccary, coati and even deer where have thought to have been at least loosely domesticated. As for the population size, I doubt very much that it ranged as high as millions as some speculate, as the resources in the Yucatan could not have supported such a population- indeed, the collapse (if it did happen) may well have been caused by overpopulation. While maize was important, the Mayans did not solely depend on it (one can develop vitamin deficiencies from a maize only diet) squash, beans, sweat potatoes and some meat was very important as well. Still, a well done video all the same!

    • @danielg3924
      @danielg3924 Před 5 lety +10

      The Mayans and other mesoamerican civs would prepare the maize into tortillas or sopes by grounding the paize on a metate which was made of minerals such as limestone that made up for the vitamin deficiencies so I believe it was possible for Maize to be the principal staple in the Mayan diet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

    • @sawyermifsud852
      @sawyermifsud852 Před 5 lety +6

      Papirri Meister it was the staple cereal and the source of most of the calories in their daily diet but it isn't as nutrionally complete as alternatives like rice or wheat. They almost certainly supplemented with other crops in significant amounts.

    • @obzidianbladez2873
      @obzidianbladez2873 Před 5 lety +12

      Recent data says the Maya had a population of around 7-15 million, double than was previously expected. Lime and ash were mixed with maize to give the necessary nutrients that humans need. Also the list of domestication of plants and animals was huge, combination with maize these foods were adequate enough to support a large population.

    • @KaaxItzam
      @KaaxItzam Před 5 lety +4

      I am aware that the Mayans did use lime in their maize production, and I am grateful for those who did mention it as I didn't put that in my original comment. It is not just food that is needed for a large population but also water and shelter/space, I did see a documentary recently (I presume this is the data you are referring to) that showed large amount of buildings in sites like Tikal, however did these buildings exist at the same time? Where they all occupied at the same time? All sorts of questions arise when new archaeological discoveries are found.

    • @obzidianbladez2873
      @obzidianbladez2873 Před 5 lety +2

      @@KaaxItzam Yes, I was refering to that video and data reports for the multi-million Maya population. Several archaeological books points out and discusses the population of the Maya and in those books It has determined that the population were in the millions.

  • @cheerfulpessimist952
    @cheerfulpessimist952 Před 5 lety +65

    Incredible work, this series on the Mesoamerican civilizations has been a real treat.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +7

      Thank you! We will have similar series for other regions, too.

    • @cheerfulpessimist952
      @cheerfulpessimist952 Před 5 lety +3

      Excellent, something to look forward to 8)

    • @bulukmayanwarfare1267
      @bulukmayanwarfare1267 Před 5 lety

      Yes, there needs to be more of it.

    • @alysonmanuele3039
      @alysonmanuele3039 Před 4 lety

      Cheerful Pessimist
      You heard the introduction to this video, I presume? Then the erudite would know this video was done by a Ph.d whose work was marketed to those who have no access to education.

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx Před 5 lety +122

    Nice! Maya is one of my favorite! Spent some time down in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize checking out their sites. Fascinating culture.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +10

      Man, you traveled quite a bit, I am jealous. :-)

    • @serenemountain6769
      @serenemountain6769 Před 4 lety +2

      Most people are very fascinated by the Mayan Ritualistic Murders, Bleeding their victims dry in their alters, offering a river of blood to their false gods!
      They even removed the Heart's of their victims, while they where still alive!
      About time the spanish went there!
      Those ho kill by the sword die by the sword!

    • @andresferrer9890
      @andresferrer9890 Před 3 lety

      Rhizosphere loved the inquisitions

    • @justinh6651
      @justinh6651 Před 3 lety +1

      @@serenemountain6769 uhhh. Did you watch the video? It said in the middle of the video that they didn't do mass human sacrifice. You literally don't know shit about what you're talking about

  • @CogitoEdu
    @CogitoEdu Před 5 lety +262

    It's great to keep working with Kings and Generals on these videos :).
    As stated in the video Maya history is loooong and some of it had to be condensed in order to make this video less than 10 hours :D But if anyone has any questions regarding the Maya let me know and I will answer to the best of my ability.

    • @dustygrrrl
      @dustygrrrl Před 5 lety +10

      No question, just hoping that after the Maya vids you might continue to contribute to this channel with your great videos and insight! It would be great to have similar videos on the Muisca, Mapuche, Haida, etc.

    • @michealbrambleby-shelford7974
      @michealbrambleby-shelford7974 Před 5 lety +1

      Dusty Grrl I’ll happily second Dusty’s comment 👍🏾

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu Před 5 lety +19

      Thanks. That is fantastic to hear. I am very happy that you are enjoying this content. Myself and Kings and Generals will be working together to create more content like this for a long time. So I hope you enjoy whats to come :D

    • @pandapalace11
      @pandapalace11 Před 5 lety +1

      Is it known who among the Maya invented the number zero?

    • @edwardkenway9225
      @edwardkenway9225 Před 5 lety

      - Cogito - why all ancient civilization and all religions talk about a big flood???can there be some connection....

  • @massaweed420
    @massaweed420 Před 5 lety +20

    These Central and South American history vids are amazing, keep them up!

  • @ethanrepublic4554
    @ethanrepublic4554 Před 5 lety +75

    Historians are so creative: pre classic/ classic/ post classic.

  • @RenaissanceMan29
    @RenaissanceMan29 Před 2 lety +2

    The calender is possibly the coolest thing they've created.

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory Před 5 lety +16

    Man these videos make me feel like a kid watching Nova or Discovery Channel again.
    I love it :')

  • @thresh86
    @thresh86 Před 5 lety +4

    I think it's the first time that I see an episode almost completely devoid of conflicts, weapons of war and general warfare.
    It was very good though with convincing visuals, excellent narration and pleasing music. Thank you for your effort.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you! The other videos are here to stay, but we are trying to expand. :-)

    • @approachinggnosis4613
      @approachinggnosis4613 Před 4 lety

      I hope you're not insinuating that the maya were peaceful

  • @MajoraZ
    @MajoraZ Před 5 lety +29

    I didn't comment on this when it original came out, but since i'm linking others to it i;m doing so now. There's no actual errors in the video, aside from the fact that you put the burial mask and jewelry of Pakal the Great's wife on the screen when going over his birth date and the time range he ruled over, which imples that was his burial regalia, not his wife's.
    While not strictly an error, i'd like to note that many of the times maps are shown of Maya territory and you show key Maya cities can be misleading as to imply that those are the only important or largw maya settlements, when there were many, many others. ALso, that the building technique you describe for pyramids isn't an exclusively maya thing, but a similar technique of a sort of course cobblestone, covered with another, more meticilious brick layer, and then finally with a layer of stucco and paint was also what many other Mesoamerican groups did, such as the Teotihuacanos, the Aztec; and they too built new layers for their pyramids over existing ones
    I also would have personally places a greater emphasis on the sheer loss of the mass burning of Maya books. Even just from the 8 remaining mixtec books we can piece together a political history of many city-states and rulers in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca and Guerrero. What we could have known had the thousands of Maya books stayed intact is inimaginable. We may have had as detailed a record of Maya society, history, and culture we we do the Roman empire.

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory Před 5 lety +80

    Perfect, I love these episodes where It's not treading the same grounds everyone else is treading
    Love your Inca Empires series too.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu Před 5 lety +4

      Happy to hear that. I hope that the Maya and Aztec series prove to be just as good. Thanks for watching :D

    • @pandapalace11
      @pandapalace11 Před 5 lety +2

      The Incan empire series was literally one of the most informative and well produced series on youtube I've seen, especially about a civilization I previously knew next to nothing about other that they lived in mountains and had roads which I learned from watching Emperors New Groove

    • @Dragons_Armory
      @Dragons_Armory Před 5 lety

      Thanks mate :D
      I am honored

  • @omkarunde2040
    @omkarunde2040 Před 5 lety +156

    Please make a video on the Assyrian military and empire.

  • @moses1142
    @moses1142 Před 5 lety +9

    Historians Compare the Spanish burning Mayan astrology and mathematical books to that of the burning of the library of Alexandria.

  • @OOG_IMP
    @OOG_IMP Před 5 lety +4

    Thank you for making these videos on Ancient American civilizations. I never realized how little I knew about these peoples.

  • @ajonetto
    @ajonetto Před 5 lety +2

    This channel is pure gold. And jade. And obsidian.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you, good sir!

    • @ajonetto
      @ajonetto Před 5 lety +1

      Dear friend I'm a Historian by trade and I'd love to share some ideas and feedback with you. Is there any email I can put myself in contact with you?

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety

      Sure! info@kingsandgenerals.net

  • @hihohe4067
    @hihohe4067 Před 5 lety +49

    I always like your videos, other sites only seem to cover the european side of history that ive heard a thousand times so hearing the less told non euro centric history is always cool.

  • @darrylprabowo9083
    @darrylprabowo9083 Před 5 lety +19

    When you hear the intro, you know its gonna be an amazing video allready
    (Pls don’t change the intro music)

  • @ASillyHistoryBuff
    @ASillyHistoryBuff Před 5 lety +6

    A short while ago I knew absolutely nothing on the Mesoamerican civilisations which have fascinated me for ages
    Now thanks to your videos I’m finally learning a good deal of info
    Keep up the great work dudes! Can’t wait to see what’s next!

  • @rockshock4247
    @rockshock4247 Před 5 lety +4

    You deserve an Emmy or Oscar or whatever for this video. Truly enlightening!

  • @Terensu-desu
    @Terensu-desu Před 5 lety +9

    One word: COOL.
    Thanks for branching out and covering other and especially lesser covered (on CZcams anyway) topics.

  • @MrSamlazanis
    @MrSamlazanis Před 5 lety +18

    Great video, I love hearing more about precolumbian civilisations, theres not enough of this kind of video. Keep up the great work!

  • @rowshonnabi5158
    @rowshonnabi5158 Před 5 lety +6

    I don't know how to thank Kings & Generals for releasing a documentary on my most favourite Civilization 😊 Can not wait for the next episode ☺

  • @rexmundi3108
    @rexmundi3108 Před 4 lety +17

    Ironic that a civilization that had to work so hard to grow things got swallowed by jungle...

  • @kauemoura
    @kauemoura Před 5 lety +2

    I discovered this channel yesterday, I'm loving it. Thank you!

  • @yllbardh
    @yllbardh Před 5 lety +4

    quite refreshing in the summer heat. today i learned that mayas also used their pyramids as burial sites. keep a good work...

  • @servantofallah1698
    @servantofallah1698 Před 5 lety +6

    Wow such advanced civilization at it’s time, didn’t think the new world was such advanced!

  • @smokenmirrors34
    @smokenmirrors34 Před 5 lety +1

    Really fascinating coverage of Mayan intellectual history. Thanks for all your amazing work!

  • @Ericotheriault
    @Ericotheriault Před 4 lety

    Ive been looking for such a series of doc for a long time now....really enjoying all the docs on Mayan culture

  • @MysteriousKaos
    @MysteriousKaos Před 5 lety +3

    Can't wait for the Tikal vs Calakmul video, well done, this channel is purely amazing and a must follow for sure!

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety

      Yes, it will happen. :-) Share our channel with your friends, let them know. :-)

  • @franosusnjara8510
    @franosusnjara8510 Před 5 lety +6

    Really hope this ameroindian serias Will continue even after Mayas. You're amazing.

  • @violatingpanda8294
    @violatingpanda8294 Před 5 lety +3

    Amazing video, as always. Always love to watch

  • @Cincy32
    @Cincy32 Před rokem +1

    I read the Popol Vuh in Spanish back in college & it is legitimately a pretty terrifying creation story. Extremely violent & the violence is cyclical for all of human existence.

  • @kingsleyharden9503
    @kingsleyharden9503 Před 5 lety +4

    Thanks for making this video. It's fresh, down to earth and informative.

  • @Galvaxatron
    @Galvaxatron Před 5 lety +4

    You guys are becoming so good at what you do.
    Top notch.

  • @c41pt41n
    @c41pt41n Před 5 lety +3

    Great video! I love learning history from you guys!

  • @nydabeats
    @nydabeats Před 5 lety +2

    Love it! Can't wait to see more!

  • @JerkyMurky
    @JerkyMurky Před 5 lety +4

    Intensely interesting and informative. Great work as always.

  • @larrydouglas2820
    @larrydouglas2820 Před 5 lety +4

    You now dwell among the best of the best at what you do. Stunning job!

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety

      Glad to hear that, we'll do even more to be the very best. :-)

  • @infernoschmidt3
    @infernoschmidt3 Před 2 lety

    Great video as always. Keep up the good work!

  • @cherryblossom2811
    @cherryblossom2811 Před 4 lety +3

    thank you for this. it helped me quite a lot in my history essay.

  • @NYCfrankie
    @NYCfrankie Před 4 lety +5

    This was one of the best series

  • @farizalresat
    @farizalresat Před 5 lety +3

    Can't wait for the next episode. I love this channel for the battles.

  • @voltanzapata8024
    @voltanzapata8024 Před 4 lety

    Very nicely done and well put together video!👍🏼

  • @davidroberts1689
    @davidroberts1689 Před 4 lety +30

    The Maya were as fanatical about their football as we are about our football.

  • @mrstarfishh33
    @mrstarfishh33 Před 5 lety +3

    This was such a great video. Keep it up!

  • @vinodvarghese78
    @vinodvarghese78 Před 5 lety +3

    Interesting video. Look forward to seeing more of mayan history.

  • @wkenneth7916
    @wkenneth7916 Před 4 lety

    Thank you for creating and posting this. It was very educational and accessible. I am clicking subscribe now.

  • @amadocarillo423
    @amadocarillo423 Před 5 lety +3

    watching this video makes me miss my old day, where I used to play Rise of Nations with my brother

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +2

      Oh, I loved that game. Too bad RTS genre is mostly dead now.

    • @amadocarillo423
      @amadocarillo423 Před 5 lety +2

      Kings and Generals yup. But still, RTS will be my favorite genre.

  • @donfierro777
    @donfierro777 Před 5 lety +4

    Truly great video!!!!!!!
    Thank You so very much!

  • @theprogenitor951
    @theprogenitor951 Před 5 lety +3

    This was a really great video. I'm looking forward to your next one in this series. :-)

  • @theboyy21
    @theboyy21 Před 3 lety +1

    The family side of my father are Mayans, his mother didn't spoke Spanish at all, but only her native language, my mother's family comes from Spaniards who settled in Chalatenango, El Salavador.
    I was born in Peten, Guatemala.
    My roots, they go deep! I'm proud of who I am.

  • @ProvidenceNL
    @ProvidenceNL Před 5 lety +4

    this is a really fascinating video, i have never spent as much time reading about the older American civilizations as i did the european and eastern ones, and these videos show me i am missing out! Thanks for these great videos Kings and Generals.

  • @NICOLASQQQ
    @NICOLASQQQ Před 5 lety +74

    can we get the Aztecs redone with this quality?

  • @turgaysgc
    @turgaysgc Před 5 lety +3

    A well prepared video... Good work.

  • @donnydonadio1185
    @donnydonadio1185 Před 5 lety +1

    I was feeling the music you picked!

  • @andeace23
    @andeace23 Před 4 lety +2

    You guys always do a great job

  • @pakalchan1762
    @pakalchan1762 Před 5 lety +3

    So glad to see you guys included the Preclassic, often this and the Postclassic are left out when talking about the Maya. Looking forward to your video on the hairknot and snake kingdom wars!

  • @carlchurchill3588
    @carlchurchill3588 Před 5 lety +9

    This kinda came out of nowhere, but this is easily one of the most accurate videos about the Maya I have seen on youtube. The simple fact that 90+ % the supplemental art (that I noticed anyhow) is Maya in origin is shocking. 10/10 work really. I mean holy shit, even your pronunciation of classic Maya names is pretty good. :0
    Your K'iche' pronounciation seems a bit sketchier though, but I could be wrong. Its Ki - I - Che (like che Guevara), not with a hard 'k'
    I should also say, that in addition to stele we do have pottery which is a actually significant source of inscriptions , and other monuments (stele is a specific kind of stone monument). Really that is my only content complaint. I can't stress enough how honestly shocked I am by the quality of this video's content.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +1

      Oh, I had no idea you are interested in the topic, glad to hear you enjoyed it! It is really difficult to pin down all the pronunciation, but will do our best to be better. :-)

    • @carlchurchill3588
      @carlchurchill3588 Před 5 lety +1

      The Maya is funny enough my main field IRL - I actually was doing work in the region this summer. I just primarily mod medieval.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety

      Good! I really need to travel to that area!

    • @carlchurchill3588
      @carlchurchill3588 Před 5 lety +1

      Its very interesting. Just bring sunscreen.

    • @bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642
      @bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642 Před 5 lety

      The "k" followed by the apostrophe is most likely an ejectivized "k" sound. You can either search for ejectives on Wikipedia or watch Artifexian's "Do mountains alter speech?" video, to see how to pronounce them.

  • @jaf_rsrp
    @jaf_rsrp Před 3 lety +1

    Amazing video! So much info, hope more come out! 🤪

  • @lonewolf6764
    @lonewolf6764 Před 5 lety

    I love history and i love visiting your Channel

  • @tyroneemail
    @tyroneemail Před 5 lety +3

    Thankyou so much for this great video. I had the opportunity to tour many of the mezoamerican cities in my life and I have had so many questions that you have answered here.

  • @FatherLand56
    @FatherLand56 Před 5 lety +3

    Great video
    Hats off to the kings and general team

  • @ThoseColoniesAreMine
    @ThoseColoniesAreMine Před 5 lety

    This was an amazing video!!

  • @-OChixxx-
    @-OChixxx- Před 3 lety +1

    I am learning empires in school and this gives me more info !

  • @kingoftherise2286
    @kingoftherise2286 Před 5 lety +3

    A very good video as always

  • @nghido4025
    @nghido4025 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you.i have a test and you give me some awesome information

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 4 lety +1

      Good luck! However, beware that we abriviate many things. So, it might be useful for a test, but not beyond it.

  • @victorporres6934
    @victorporres6934 Před 5 lety +2

    Excellent video!!

  • @tyrekrussell8898
    @tyrekrussell8898 Před 5 lety

    Thank you for providing me with this information of the Maya. In school they were always sidelined to the Aztecs and further by the civilizations in the Old World, so I didn't know a lot of information regarding the Maya' so I appreciate it.

  • @kalashnikov5038
    @kalashnikov5038 Před 5 lety +73

    Oh I'm gonna grind this up! I'm in love with central american history my man! :D

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu Před 5 lety +3

      Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video :D

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu Před 5 lety +3

      Program Files™ But the video is about the Maya

    • @Wrestling4404
      @Wrestling4404 Před 5 lety +3

      @@MrGeorge7823 there was Nahuatl/Maya/Oto-manguean people all over Central America, hell I'm Salvadoran/Honduran and our oral and written history recounts our migration towards Central America after the collapse of Teotihuacan and later Tula (We're Pipil, Nahuatl speakers)

    • @lorenzovonmatterhorn4756
      @lorenzovonmatterhorn4756 Před 5 lety

      @@MrGeorge7823 typical of Mexicans to think they are superior to central America. You know the Mayan occupied central America right ? And Yucatan was part of the Mayan territory. The main Maya city Tikal is in Guatemala. Pay attention before saying some dumb shit.

    • @lorenzovonmatterhorn4756
      @lorenzovonmatterhorn4756 Před 5 lety

      @@MrGeorge7823 also this is about Maya not Aztec. They aren't the same people. Shared similarities but not the same

  • @jwilli726
    @jwilli726 Před 5 lety +3

    Nice to see an accurate and equanimous depiction. Well done!

  • @Eaf2016
    @Eaf2016 Před 4 lety +1

    Awesome and informative video. Thank you for creating content on the Maya. I'm 50% Maya, and its amazing to me what the civilization was able to create, and how complex they were. Saludos de Honduras.

  • @bassuurland9136
    @bassuurland9136 Před 5 lety +2

    Discovered this channel through Reddit. Subsribed immediately, loved this video, keep it up!

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +2

      Thanks :-) New videos every Sunday and Thursday. :-)

    • @bassuurland9136
      @bassuurland9136 Před 5 lety +2

      Kings and Generals I’ll be watching all of them. I love channels like yours. This is what “content” really means. Gonna watch all your videos.

  • @user-hn5bi3nw9y
    @user-hn5bi3nw9y Před 5 lety +4

    Editing is getting better and better

  • @Kariakas
    @Kariakas Před 5 lety +2

    Great video, very interesting.

  • @ojutay8375
    @ojutay8375 Před 5 lety +17

    Finally my favorite mesoamerican civ

  • @user-vh6gs7kn8o
    @user-vh6gs7kn8o Před 5 lety +3

    Oh yeah I've been looking forward to this

  • @TheYoGhurtE
    @TheYoGhurtE Před 5 lety +4

    Terriffic episode! Looking forward to the (likely) Tikal - Calacmul showdown on the next episode. Just a few weeks ago I visited some of the Maya sights in Mexico and Belize, truly magnificent. Although I'd recommend anyone interested to avoid the most visited places (like Chichen Itza) and go to the lesser known to really be on your own and dive into the Maya world. I really enjoyed Ek Balam and Xunantunich.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you! Yes, at least 2 more episodes in this series. :-)

  • @alighahremani3656
    @alighahremani3656 Před 5 lety +3

    outstanding!
    thanks u so much
    I already can see this series will be as intresting as the Inca empire series.
    you might wanna cover battles of carrhae and karnal,mate!they are so cool! showing how a much smaller army with better commandership and strategy could actually defeat a much larger army.
    And I already could say your series on Nader is going to be magnificent.
    stay strong mate!

  • @IvoOtt
    @IvoOtt Před 5 lety +4

    Amazing vid! Thanks alot Kings and Generals!
    Can you do one on the Pacific cultures that voyaged the oceans thousands of years ago?

    • @IvoOtt
      @IvoOtt Před 5 lety

      Yup! the same DNA trace goes from south east asia to madagascar to all the distant pacific islands.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +1

      Thanks for watching! The plan is to give our patrons a poll to decide the next region.

  • @DanielLee_2304
    @DanielLee_2304 Před 5 lety +3

    Wow, this is really great and interesting!

  • @bjplum80
    @bjplum80 Před 5 lety +2

    thank you!

  • @Fumblerful
    @Fumblerful Před 5 lety +2

    Scrolled to see the Fiechte brothers. They are one of the few music groups I have found recently my dad and I both like. Glad to see them getting more attention.

  • @JeffreyJFerguson
    @JeffreyJFerguson Před 5 lety +9

    If anybody's interested in reading a well-researched and well-crafted fantasy book set in the Ancient Mayan Lands, "Hunt for the Mayan Looking Glass" by James Luceno is available for devices like the Amazon Kindle. I read it last month and really enjoyed it. He's a NY Times Bestselling author who's written extensively in the Star Wars Universe, but the Maya have always been a lifelong passion of his. It's his labour of love, and the knowledge and care he put into it really show. Plus it's a welcome change from the played-out Western Medieval Tolkien-derivative fantasy books that you're probably just as tired of by now as I am.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety +2

      Oh, I have read a bunch of SW novels by him, and he wasn't bad at all. Need to add that to the list. :-)

  • @christermi
    @christermi Před 5 lety +3

    You guys upload videos way too often . We all love that ! :-)

  • @harlsplayzonrbx6639
    @harlsplayzonrbx6639 Před 2 lety

    Thank you I’m learning about this at school

  • @johnnywalker1333
    @johnnywalker1333 Před 5 lety +1

    I liked the video without even having watched it yet lol I am always looking forward to your stuff

  • @captainlag3537
    @captainlag3537 Před 5 lety +3

    Thank you very much for this video! It's very exciting to see other parts of the world being covered in detail. Maybe, after the Americas (also the north americans/totemists, if they count), the African or Indonesian civilisations could be covered as well?

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  Před 5 lety

      Thanks for watching! The plan is to give our patrons a poll to decide the next region.

  • @eddygiron2390
    @eddygiron2390 Před 5 lety +24

    And Kings and Generals, the quetzal is such a beautiful bird, that reddish cute chest it has, very delicate animal.

  • @Juliusthebastard
    @Juliusthebastard Před 5 lety +2

    These are the best of the Indigenous American series so far.

  • @theraptor6973
    @theraptor6973 Před 5 lety +2

    love it, keep up the great work kings and generals:)

  • @tagitabtimanwa8898
    @tagitabtimanwa8898 Před 5 lety +7

    "politics,greed, and ambition..." well we still have those stuff up to these date.

    • @serenemountain6769
      @serenemountain6769 Před 4 lety +1

      Thats right, the past repeats itself ! Old habbits Die Hard ! Very Hard !

  • @jl9737
    @jl9737 Před 5 lety +6

    Great video! I would love to see video with differences between mayas, incas i astecs.