Yeah, kinda. I think the Mayan culture was wiped out much more quickly than the Inca culture. Still, the conquistadors were just a bunch of lonely guys several months away from home. They married Mayan women. In lots of the small villages and towns, the people speak a mix of Spanish and Mayan. It's pretty interesting. I took a class on Andean cultures last semester...obviously the Incas were much farther south, but it was a similar scenario as far as language and culture is concerned.

I think they knew their civilization would end...they just wanted to mess with us, so they said the world would end in 2012. Either that or Squanto was busy chipping away at the calendar when the Spanish came riding through and killed everyone. Who knows.

Do you know if there is an exact date in 2012? I wonder if they adjusted for leap years. Someone was off...every day is 23.9-something hours...that's why they add an extra day in February every four years...to keep us on track.