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Has there been any movie based on the Mayan civilization?

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There are several good videos on YouTube about the Mayas, their calendar, their culture, their history. Nat Geo documentaries are my favorite. read more

The Mayan civilization did practice both warfare and human sacrifice. It also predated the Aztec civilization by a good bit, and was in decline by the time Technoctitlan became a major power in central Mexico. The Mexicatl ("Aztecs") also made a practice if whacking the hearts out of captured enemy soldiers, slaves, and other folk. read more

Apocalypto has been criticized for portraying a type of human sacrifice which was more typical of the Aztecs than of the Maya. Archaeologist Lisa Lucero said,"the classic Maya really didn't go in for mass sacrifice. That was the Aztecs." Anthropology professor Karl Taube argued that,"We know the Aztecs did that level of killing. read more

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