[CzarNicky]

I thought the Maya were extinct by the time the Spanish arrived and this was about the Aztecs.

[RobbyS]

The Mayans are alive and cutting your lawn.

[danmar]

I thought the Maya were extinct by the time the Spanish arrived and this was about the Aztecs.

Well, you've got the whole think backwards; the Mayan descendants are doing just fine on the Yucatan Peninsula and other places, while the Aztecs have vanished without a trace (there are no Aztecs blood line anywhere to be found, although a whole bunch of Mexican revisionists wants you to believe otherwise!).

Remember that Aztlan Nation crap they want you to believe it existed and a large portion of the USA's South-West States belonged to that fantasy Mexican ShangriLa?.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Cortez's interpreter and mistress, "Doña Marina" or "La Malinche" was most likely Nahua, and was said to have been sold as a slave to the Mayans. She was offered to Cortez by The Chontal Maya, in what is the present day Mexican state of Tabasco, so she must have been one spicy chica!

[ChicagoHebrew]

I thought the Maya were extinct by the time the Spanish arrived and this was about the Aztecs.

The Maya weren't, and aren't extinct. There are still Mayan villages in Mexico (where the Mayan language is spoken, and some elements of Mayan culture remain).

The Maya did, however, experience a steep decline about 400 years before the Spanish arrived -- abandoning all their major cities. Gibson is flat, stupid wrong to depict huge Mayan cities and pyramids at the time of the Spanish conquest. It would be like depicting Soloman's Temple existing at the time of the Crusades. . .