Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> In all fairness the TV series 'Robin of Sherwood'
> also included a moor as a
> member of the merry men. However to the best of my
> knowledge this is a modern
> addition with no basis in the ballad tradition -
> which admittedly doesn't make
> it a bad idea. There were also witches, wizards
> and a pagan god in RoS - but
> of course they did it well.
>
> Hadn't Mayan civilization already crashed and
> burned well before the Conquest?

Yes and no. The apogee of Mayan Civilization during the Classic (AD 200-900) had been reached, but there were active Post-Classic Maya states both in YUucatan and in Guatemala. Their calendar was still superior to that of the Aztec.
Bernard