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https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/06oct_maya https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-did-the-mayan-civilization-collapse-a-new-study-points-to-deforestation-and-climate-change-30863026/ The link to the articles and studies are in those sites. The inconsistent...

The Maya destroyed all the rainforest, which caused a drought that lasted decades ending their civilization. This is what archaeologists believe to be the cause of the fall of the Maya. They used the wood to cook the stones to buid the temples until there was no forest close.

The Spanish allied with many tribes to fight both the Incas and the Aztecs.This plus a lot of diseases brought by them did the job. A firearm was inferior to a bow during that period.

Nubia conquered Egypt. Look at the XXV Dynasty.

Light bulb and airplane are not USA inventions. Scotland's science bonus is justified and good. A middle Age Scotland would be nice insted.

Stonehenge was built by farmer like people, not hunter-gatherer. After 5-6 generations you have little DNA from these ancestors, and you don't get DNA from all of them after that. They just traced some DNA markers to see if he was related to him but shared autosomal DNA is minimal. After the...

In the Bronze age the genetics of Europe changed.The Modern European population was created in the Bronze age.The people who built stonehenge is more like the early european farmers, before the indo-european imigration.They were very close genetically to the minoans who were also genetically...

It is a Kilij in the video.Some Seljuk rulers were called kilij arslan(sword-lion)