Some of the Mayan people who saw the spanish probably were so excited about new lands and different cultures, but then they all died. i don't know why that makes me sad, there were probably some excited people with a whole imagined new world in their heads. it's just sad that they all just died.
>>18423719The Mayans were a shell of their former selves living on the fringes of their ruined cities. Basically like in Planet of The Apes where they all regressed and lived like nomads around the ruins of the statue of liberty.Also Mayans still exist. People in those regions today have like 90%+ Amerindian DNA.
>>18423726it's because the spanish were actually considerate enough to protect their rights and well-beingsthe anglos would just annihilate them
>>18423726>The Mayans were a shell of their former selves living on the fringes of their ruined cities.This is a myth btw. Even Chichen Itza, the most famous of all Maya cities, was founded after the collapse
>>18423719THERE ARE STILL MAYA TODAY, RETARD, AND THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE INCREASED LIKE NEVER BEFORE IN THE EMPIRE.
>>18423728>>18423845>The indigenous population of Mexico experienced a catastrophic decline in the first century after Spanish contact, with estimates suggesting a drop of 80% to 90% by the early 1600s. The population of central Mexico plummeted from an estimated pre-contact level of 15–25 million in 1519 to around 1–2 million by the early 17th century.Also kill yourself tripfag
>>18423854AMERINDIAN POPULATION DECREASED DUE TO EPIDEMICS, AND AFTER THEM, IT BOOMED.YOU ARE A MORON.
>>18423845>ESPAÑA RAPING MY ABUELITA FOR 500 YEARS IS....LE GOOD O ALGO VIVA JESUS MARIAShut the fuck up race traitor.
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>>18423719If you read Bernal Diaz, you can see how first contact went, spanish soldiers and priests were castawayed on the yucatan and the mayans immediately sacrificed most of them and enslaved the rest, my assumption is that this might be because colombus basically robbed one of their trading canoes a decade before actual contact so they already didnt have a good impression of the spanish, but the general impression is that the maya were very xenophobic, and not very open to foreign cultures. The maya already knew who the spanish were when actual expeditions came to the yucatan and took every opportunity to attack them first and push them back to their ships. Granted in my opinion this was actually the right move and let them more effectively resist the spanish.Compare this to the Mexica, central Nahua groups who were much more curious and generous when the spanish made contact, it didn't really end up working that well for them in the end, aside from the Tlaxcaltecs maybe.
>>18424010I feel like if any news whatsoever of what happened in the Caribbean reached the mainland that would be reason enough for the natives to be extremely hostile and untrusting
>>18423726That's a myth thoThey were actually doing just fine, still living in cities, still writing and still building things, just with a different elite culture and mostly not the same cities as the famous handful of sites that become tourist attractions (most major Maya cities at the time of the Spanish conquest just had colonial cities built over them)
>>18423719>who saw the spanish probably were so excited about new lands and different cultures, but then they all died.GoodFuck globohomofags
>>18423726>The Mayans were a shell of their former selves living on the fringes of their ruined cities. Basically like in Planet of The Apes where they all regressed and lived like nomads around the ruins of the statue of liberty.This is not true, after the Classic Collapse plenty of cities in the north continued to thrive and even grow. There was a slower, more gradual decline of these Northern cities but there were still some sizable settlements around as of Spanish contact, Cortes desribes the city of Potonchan as being fairly large, for instance, even if not with the same wonder he describes say Tenochtitlan.
>>18425180>not with the same wonder he describes say Tenochtitlan.I don't think that's really fair, Tenochtitlan was genuinely one of the most spectacular cities that ever existed anywhere on earth. No Mayan city ever came close, aside from MAYBE El Mirador, but it was far less dense and less elaborately planned.I really wouldn't describe postclassic Maya cities as "in decline", it's just that their new decentralized council led form of government was less inclined to build huge dense cities than the old classic era divine kingdoms were. Postclassic cities are generally more poorly known as well because many of them were living entities when the Spanish arrived, so they moved in and built over them, replacing most of the Mayan constructions bit by bit, whereas classic period sites were mostly abandoned and consumed by jungles long ago, so they were "frozen in time" to an extent.
