Title: A Movie isn't Sociology for God's sake!
Product review: I keep seeing these complaints that Gibson "failed to shed light on why the culture disappeared". How in Heaven's name, could he???The Mayan culture had degenerated from a single united kingdom by 1441 (a half-century before Columbus, and 500 years after the "classic" period of Mayan culture had ended). The Aztec and Inca were the only remaining Mesoamerican empires by the time the Spaniards arrived in 1517, with the Old World diseases (not religion) which so weakened the already-crumbling empires that they could not resist the heavily outnumbered Spaniards.Many scientists and sociologists consider the Spanish as the symptom, rather than the disease, so to speak, since the Aztec and Inca dissolved in much the same manner as the earlier Olmec, Maya, and Toltec, which had declined well before the Spaniards. In short, if the experts can't explain it, how in God's name would you expect a Hollywood "director" to come up with the answers???
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