[CalRobert]

Europeans destroyed them. It's a crime against history that can hardly be expressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices

[userulluipeste]

I understand that it's simpler to say just "Europeans" instead of "European colonial powers", but before you know it you may cast an unjust collective accuse over an entire continent full of people, many of which had nothing to do with the sins of America's colonization.

[CalRobert]

OK, make that "A group of people who came to the Americas from Europe and behaved in a less than polite manner"

[protomyth]

You do know that there are tribes other than the Mayans?