Mayans III

1300-1650 CE

From 1300 to 1650 CE, the Mayans refused to become a memory — the great cities abandoned, their descendants scattered into competing kingdoms across Yucatán and the highlands, yet still building temples, still reading the stars, still recording time in glyphs the Spanish would burn as devil's work. Tayasal held out until 1697, the last independent Maya kingdom falling to conquistadors whose great-great-grandfathers had already conquered Mexico.