Cortez wuss compared to Mark Burnett

Background: Deep within the jungles Guatemala and extending into the limestone shelf of the Yucatán peninsula lie the fabled temples and palaces of the Maya. While Europe still slumbered in the midst of the Dark Ages, these innovative people had charted the heavens, evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas and were masters of mathematics and calendrics. Without advantage of metal tools, beasts of burden or even the wheel they were able to construct vast cities with an astonishing degree of architectural perfection and variety.

The Mayan civilization was destoyed when the Mayans were slaughtered by and succumed to Spanish invaders. In addition, imported European diseases decimated the Mayan population. The Mayans were moved into villages and paid heavy taxes to the Spanish government.

The Mayan legacy lives on in the form of stone ruins which have survived in a spectacular fashion as well as seven million descendants of the classic Maya civilization.

When future generations study the history of the Mayan civilization, abuses heaped on the Mayans by the Spanish will pale in comparison to the atrocities committed by the Nakum and Yaxha tribes. Never heard of them? You need to watch Survivor Guatemala. The contestants are living in (and vomiting on) the Mayan Ruins.