To: My Favorite Headache
1. The men approaching the shore were representive of the explorers from Europe, probably Spain.
2. The two men went to the men coming ashore, assumedly, because they believed the Gods had returned. Or something like that.
3. I think the story is largely one based on the period, and not probably a true story.
3 posted on
12/12/2006 7:08:19 PM PST by
Enterprise
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To: Enterprise
As I've always understood it the Spaniards were originally welcomed as Gods.
5 posted on
12/12/2006 7:10:36 PM PST by
cripplecreek
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To: Enterprise
Thank you all who replied..it helps clear it up for me...I was left very curious as to why they just stopped cold like that.
8 posted on
12/12/2006 7:16:15 PM PST by
My Favorite Headache
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To: Enterprise
Circa 800 AD, right in the middle of the Late Classical Maya period (when there were still Maya around who particularly cared for the stone monuments and stockaded cities) the bow and arrow showed up in the Americas.
Had to be somewhere.
This may be it.
If you have Spaniards landing, that would be in the post classic Maya period, and the cities, towns and warrior socities, etc. were no longer working, or had been totally abandoned for centuries.
9 posted on
12/12/2006 7:20:45 PM PST by
muawiyah
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