Man in the World
The more I travel, learn and experience, the more I realize how little I know of the world
Tag: pre-columbian
The Ancient Maya Poisoned Tikal’s Drinking Water
twitter.com/AdalbjornVonAda/status/1277213955350462464
New York, New York: The City of Immigrants on Stolen Land
Known in Lenape time as Manaháhtaan on a river called Muhheakantuck, part of the ancestral domain of the Lenape-speaking peoples that inhabited the Lenapehoking. Today this territory stretches from Virginia to New England and Manhattan now is a borough within New York City that… Continue Reading “New York, New York: The City of Immigrants on Stolen Land”
7. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
El Salvador El Salvador lies on the Pacific coast and is the smallest of the Central American countries. Most of the country rests on a fertile volcanic plateau. The development of coffee estates led to the slow but continuous dissolution of most of the… Continue Reading “7. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas”
6. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Honduras In the western corner of Honduras live the 51,000 strong Ch’orti’ Maya people, cousins of the Cholán Mayans in the Guatemalan lowlands who were responsible for many of the city states like Tikal that the Mayans are famous for. The once mighty Copán… Continue Reading “6. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas”
4. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Guatemala The territory of modern Guatemala once formed the core of the Maya civilization of the highlands. Most of the country was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, becoming part of the vice royalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence in 1821 as part of the Federal… Continue Reading “4. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas”
3. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Mexico (Chiapas) Inhabited mostly by a majority Maya populations of the closely related Tzotzil and Tzeltal ethnic groups in the highlands, the Chol of the forests in the north who inhabited the whole Usumacinta River valley in the Mayan Classic period, the Toholabal and… Continue Reading “3. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas”
2. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language.… Continue Reading “2. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas”
1. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
This is the first part of what will become a seven part series about the modern day Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to their lands from the 16th century onward, they have had… Continue Reading “1. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas”
Huēyi Teōcalli (Templo Mayor)
Mexico, Mexico. 3. May, 2017. One must have an active imagination and previous knowledge of the Aztec (Mexica) capital Tenochtitlán, to recreate in the mind how it’s major temple complexe, Huēyi Teōcalli, called Templo Mayor today, must have looked like in pre-Hispanic times. With… Continue Reading “Huēyi Teōcalli (Templo Mayor)”
Authors
-
Man in the World
politicalsocialexperiment
Man in the World 
The continuing Spanish/Latino exploitation of the Americas
Posted on 18. July, 2022 by Man in the World
Leave a Comment
When traveling in Latin-America, most tourists seek out designated spots favoured by those seeking beautiful and exotic landscapes. Few though look around and see with their own eyes the exploitation around them that is part of the local society. This is both material exploitation… Continue Reading “The continuing Spanish/Latino exploitation of the Americas”
Share this:
Like this:
Category: Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Maya, Mexico, Native Americans, Politics, pre-columbian