I feel obliged to defend the Mayans somewhat. The whole end of the world thing was due to people realizing the Mayan Long Calendar was nearing its end. What does that mean? Well, when it happened before (twice, I think) during the Empire's run, the Mayans threw a party and started a new calendar. That's it. We know this, incidentally, both due to written records that none of the doomsayers bothered to read, and the word of Mayan descendants throughout Central and South America who were shouting this stuff at anyone who would listen during the 2012 panic.
also, as i understand, the mayan calendar was actually off by quite a bit because while they got the order of events right, the slight imperfections in the earth's tilt and orbit meant their calendar was way off of where it should have been. obviously this sort of adjustment could have been made in the process of using the calendar, but since the mayans died out, the long calendar never got updated and just got increasingly wrong over time.
@@Yal_Rathol Not so much that they were wrong, but rather that the Long Calendar didn't use Leap Years while the Gregorian Calendar does. This caused people to miscalculate the end date by 7 months or so.
Yal Rathol the earth doesn't move lol its a flat stationary realm With a dome on top. The mayans probably were nothing like we have been told they were. I doubt they got any dates wrong though. Astrology is an ancient reality all our ancestors would have been extremely proficient at. If anything de-evolved
"When did my ballsack gain sentience?" "I thought I recognized that face" Well those are two lines together that I could very much go without hearing. Ever.
12:47 it would also be great as a game mode on Plague Inc. You need to spread the belief on the oncoming apocalypse while people will try hard to disprove of your claim using facts
What happened to all those other people? We know they ranked up debt and wasted their savings...but what happened after? Did they ever recover or get back on their feet? I hope so but when you become known in your area as the nutjob who believed in the coming of the apocalypse, it's a little hard to come back from that.
They went into incredible debt, and probably ended up insanely poor, living on welfare, and avoiding co-- HOLY SHIT A SPIDER JUST APPEARED IN FRONT OF MY FACE . . . -- I lost my train of thought...
Maybe some of the indebted people ot help from family? Some probably didn't, however they're probaby forever laughing stocks in their neighbor/old friends eyes
1. The mayans performed very few, if any religious sacrifices. They were content to live in peace most of the time. You're thinking of Aztecs. 2. The mayan calendar NEVER signified the end of the world. The surviving maya have explained this numerous times. The calendar was simply made so that it ends at this point and has to be made anew, much like our calendars every year.
To be fair alot of people confuse mayans with the aztecs. Even during the 2012 craze they constantly used pictures of the aztec calendar instead of the mayan calendar. That's mostly because mayan and aztec culture were very similar with the only difference being those notorious human sacrifices the aztecs loved to do.
@@godess_call Don't think it's really about similar culture but more "things we can safely blame to *_COOOOOOOORTEEEEERRRRRRZZZZZZZ~~~~!!!!!!!_* " _(Waving fist with impotent rage at sky)_
Even if I was a religious person, this made me feel like banging my head against the aquarium until it breaks apart but I still bang my head against the broken glasses until I am dead. Good thing that was in another parallel dimension though.
36:11 coming back to this a year later, I'm afraid of dementia and I always get really concerned when an elderly person really does something out of character or extremely drastic, because it makes me worried that they might be having some sort of neurodegenerative disease. It makes me wonder if this guy was starting to go down that path but he was too influential to really has anyone to rein him in and get him the help that he needed before this whole thing got out of hand.
$100 million dollars is what it cost the US navy to build the USS IOWA IN 1940! admittedly that's not adjusted for inflation but still, that's more than most people will earn in THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, that's more than some countries GDP. that's a lot of money.
"The Mayans had the end of the world figured out!" You mean the society whose calendar is so inaccurate that they had to have a week between years just to make it all work?
@@rockycuro7737 I recall reading somewhere that, in order for it to work as a calendar, there was effectively a week between the end of one year and the start of the next. Also recall some note that, because this week technically didn't exist, nothing you did in said week would be legally held against you. Granted, I am not 100% on the veracity of this claim, so take it with a grain of salt...but it does fall into that "too stupid that it might actually be plausible" category.
9:04 and 12:13, those heartbreaking moments when you actually want to strangle them, bitch slap, and rob every single person of following the wrong person who's predicting the end of the world and calculus bullshit.
I remember where I was when this happened. Fort Benning Georgia in holding barracks before you get sent to basic training. I saw what the day was and remembered it was suppose to be the end of the world. I had a good laugh. But a small part of me was hoping it was true so I wouldn't have to go to basic training.
I think you guys missed at 38:22 because you were still laughing at the "Did you pay for that cross?", but Mary was saying "Here, have another Bloody Me" and that just fucking slayed me XD
I’m a Christian, and I’m pretty cool. I eat frosted flakes and play Persona. Can I have a high five? Edit: damn auto correct, forested flakes, I swear...
@@Iankameel Are you seriously still trying to troll with this low effort shit? Trolling used to be an art, autistic and retarded fucks like you ruined it.
Funny how everyone's reaction was "Let's run up a shitload of debt because it's not gonna matter for us!" when I'm pretty sure that action would mean them getting left behind for being sinners...
But why should the rapture specifically start happening in the US? If it should start at 6 pm in every timezone on May 21, then it should start happening somewhere at New Zealand. The fact that it didn't start happening there was pretty much a hint that it would never happen.
don't worry, the Rapture is unbiblical, not believed by the actual church established by Christ. The Rapture was invented by an American Protestant in 1830, and this is why it tends to be very America-centric.
I actually took advantage of the "revised" rapture date. My BIRTHDAY is October 21st. Told believers that would get in my face about their religion that I fooled Camp into believing it would be an earthquake, and that I was just biding my time before I roasted everything.
You didn't know? The rapture was going to happen that day, but was thwarted thanks to the sacrifice of Randy Macho Man Savage. He died elbow dropping the 4 horsemen for our sins.
the problem with 2012, is that everyone entirely misinterpreted the mayan "prediction" people saw the end of the mayan calendars cycle and said "welp that must mean they thought that was the end of the world!" when in reality it just meant their calendar cycle was going to start a new, if they had still been around until 2012, they wouldve been having partying and celebrating the start of the new cycle. they didnt actually think the world was going to end. 2012 was just a bunch of people saying "well the calendar ends here so it must be the end of the world to them!" nah it wasnt.
The Permian Extinction (The Great Dying) killed 83% of life on the planet, and it took the earth 10 million years to recover from it. Watching this makes me wish it was happening right now...
indians actually. the arabic number system didn't start with a zero, the indians added it. the babylonians were the first to invent the zero, but the mayans, indians and babylonians all independantly thought it up at different times.
Yeah I'm pretty sure numerology is also spoken against in the Bible since that was also one of the things the Pagan Cults and Witch Doctors tried to do.
MY MAN IS SPITTING STRAIGHT FACTS no religion in the history of earth can tell you only jehovah's witnesses will know when that time comes. tell your friend in the glasses with the beard he has my respect!
The Mayan’s never predicted the end of the world. Modern people said, wait, what happens when the Mayan’s calendar reaches the end? Well, what happens when we reach the end of a modern year? Another one begins. The end of every event or plan or whatever can’t end in the end of the world.
10:44 Those "barbarians" you were talking about were the Aztecs. The Mayans made the calendar. And while there were _some_ sacrifice due to religious beliefs, they were by and large simple (non-lethal) blood offerings to keep the world from literally ending (according to their deep beliefs). The Aztecs were the motherfukers that nobody liked, that were known to use an obsidian knife to cut open their victims and pull out their heart, and kicking their dead carcass down the steps on a routine basis. Their religious beliefs may have differed, but don't put disrespect on the Mayans like that.
Who else would just want to go back in time to the moment that the rapture was said to happen at and and go to New York while they were all recording and just Rick Roll everyone once it hit 6:00 pm or even before it got to 6:00 pm? Because I would, and just say after rick rolling everyone to look up my channel in 2021 or some year possibly breaking the time space continuum.
Their crops didn't run dry because of human sacrifice, it's because of the invasion of Europeans. Also their society was much more organised then what Americans give them credit for in media.
@Fer Morales Droughts are a natural disaster, it has nothing to do with human sacrifice or "barbaric" culture. If you know ANYTHING about agriculture, then you know that burning plant materials returns nutrients to the soil, and slash and burn only becomes ineffective when you have TOO MANY people, not because you sacrificed a whole bunch. So no, you can try to ignore the ill effects of the European invasion of America and blame everything on "barbarism", but that's just euro-centric and delusional.
@Fer Morales I admit that I am no expert in agriculture, nor do I claim to be. What I do know is that slash and burn becomes ineffective when done too frequently, which is a sign of overpopulation not underpopulation. They didn't sacrifice each other till they all died out, as the renegades implied. A major loss in population during droughts is normal, it has happened around most parts of the world, food supplies dwindle and people die out. What happens after that is the rebuilding and redistribution of the populace, that's a little difficult when there are men with deadly weapons and disease trying to pacify "infidels". Just google Spanish Conquest of the Maya if you want to know more. My point is that they didn't "Sacrifice so many people that their crops ran dry" which is a rhetoric that has been expressed quite frequently.
Thanks for watching, lads ;)
There's stuff on the second channel too if you run through these ones.
Enjoy!
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well damn, I did not expect you here.
I feel obliged to defend the Mayans somewhat. The whole end of the world thing was due to people realizing the Mayan Long Calendar was nearing its end. What does that mean? Well, when it happened before (twice, I think) during the Empire's run, the Mayans threw a party and started a new calendar. That's it.
We know this, incidentally, both due to written records that none of the doomsayers bothered to read, and the word of Mayan descendants throughout Central and South America who were shouting this stuff at anyone who would listen during the 2012 panic.
also, as i understand, the mayan calendar was actually off by quite a bit because while they got the order of events right, the slight imperfections in the earth's tilt and orbit meant their calendar was way off of where it should have been. obviously this sort of adjustment could have been made in the process of using the calendar, but since the mayans died out, the long calendar never got updated and just got increasingly wrong over time.
@@Yal_Rathol Not so much that they were wrong, but rather that the Long Calendar didn't use Leap Years while the Gregorian Calendar does. This caused people to miscalculate the end date by 7 months or so.
Yal Rathol the earth doesn't move lol its a flat stationary realm
With a dome on top. The mayans probably were nothing like we have been told they were. I doubt they got any dates wrong though. Astrology is an ancient reality all our ancestors would have been extremely proficient at. If anything de-evolved
@@Iankameel poe or idiot.......hmmm....
@@Yal_Rathol I think it's a troll ma dude.
That "math" segment sounded like he wanted to say "Half Life 3 confirmed" at any given moment.
51 is divisible by 3. Half Life 3 confirmed.
I'd rather believe that.
Yes, this. xD
That's in the first part of the bible, most of these calculations came from new testament.
Tyler Rinn
Except hf 3 did get confirmed
"Give it to me straight, Doc, how much do time do I have left?"
"Six..."
"Six what? Six years? Six months?"
"Five..."
"5 what?"
@@larrypoppins6273 “Four...”
@@olivernielsen2211 "4 what?"
3
"2....."
12:14
His pain at the 100 million estimate...My God, it's heart-wrenching every time I see it 🤣
I FEEL HIM
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom?"
I wonder what ever happened to Marvin the Martian. It feels like he stopped existing at some point.
@@DisorientedWanderer He'll show up in Space Jam 2...
Civvie 11 fan I see!
@@DisorientedWanderer Martian Manhunter.
oh right. mom said she got rid of the bomb in your chest.
"WHO GAVE HER THE RIGHT?!?!?!"
I can only imagine God going: "I didn't invented math for that".
That wasn’t math
Great name 😂
@@SweetMargonade that was _Meth_
God: *holup*
"When did my ballsack gain sentience?"
"I thought I recognized that face"
Well those are two lines together that I could very much go without hearing.
Ever.
Not sure which one’s more cursed
@thecrimsondragon2379 I think Chad's is worse.
I love Internet Historian's way of making ads worth watching.
"Let me get my calculator, I think I know where he fucked up."
gold.
12:47 it would also be great as a game mode on Plague Inc. You need to spread the belief on the oncoming apocalypse while people will try hard to disprove of your claim using facts
There's actually a game similar to this now, called Religion Inc!
It's not perfect, but we find it fun!
16:37 "Let me get my calculator. I think I know where he fucked up." 😂
5:36
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What happened to all those other people? We know they ranked up debt and wasted their savings...but what happened after?
Did they ever recover or get back on their feet? I hope so but when you become known in your area as the nutjob who believed in the coming of the apocalypse, it's a little hard to come back from that.
They went into incredible debt, and probably ended up insanely poor, living on welfare, and avoiding co-- HOLY SHIT A SPIDER JUST APPEARED IN FRONT OF MY FACE . . .
-- I lost my train of thought...
@Atsuko Kagari ...
...
... How the fuck do you lose your train of thought in a scripted comment?
Maybe some of the indebted people ot help from family? Some probably didn't, however they're probaby forever laughing stocks in their neighbor/old friends eyes
@Longshanks1690 You would be surprised, a lot of people have Attention deficit dis-OOH, SHINY! Sorry about that.
Ask William Wallace.
1. The mayans performed very few, if any religious sacrifices. They were content to live in peace most of the time. You're thinking of Aztecs.
2. The mayan calendar NEVER signified the end of the world. The surviving maya have explained this numerous times. The calendar was simply made so that it ends at this point and has to be made anew, much like our calendars every year.
To be fair alot of people confuse mayans with the aztecs. Even during the 2012 craze they constantly used pictures of the aztec calendar instead of the mayan calendar. That's mostly because mayan and aztec culture were very similar with the only difference being those notorious human sacrifices the aztecs loved to do.
@@godess_call Don't think it's really about similar culture but more "things we can safely blame to *_COOOOOOOORTEEEEERRRRRRZZZZZZZ~~~~!!!!!!!_* "
_(Waving fist with impotent rage at sky)_
Thank you. It bugged me
Watch internet historian's He will not divide us
Yess
Nick is better at predicting stuff that's going to happen than our boy Harold Camping.
So that was why I saw a van with 4 people screaming at me about the world ending when I was 6 years old.
Even if I was a religious person, this made me feel like banging my head against the aquarium until it breaks apart but I still bang my head against the broken glasses until I am dead.
Good thing that was in another parallel dimension though.
I think a lot of religious people and scientists were banging their heads against the glass.
@@superhaven3647 especially Christian scientists
36:11 coming back to this a year later, I'm afraid of dementia and I always get really concerned when an elderly person really does something out of character or extremely drastic, because it makes me worried that they might be having some sort of neurodegenerative disease. It makes me wonder if this guy was starting to go down that path but he was too influential to really has anyone to rein him in and get him the help that he needed before this whole thing got out of hand.
$100 million dollars is what it cost the US navy to build the USS IOWA IN 1940! admittedly that's not adjusted for inflation but still, that's more than most people will earn in THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, that's more than some countries GDP. that's a lot of money.
33:23 "That's a lot of fish"
Seriously camping's math makes about as much sense as Nostalgia Critic's Satan Equation joke from his End of Days review.
thats saying alot are you sure you mean it
Wow, it's like The Terminator...only instead of the machines gaining sentience and causing worldwide chaos...it's just Nate's ballsack.
"The Mayans had the end of the world figured out!"
You mean the society whose calendar is so inaccurate that they had to have a week between years just to make it all work?
What do you mean a week between years?
@@rockycuro7737 I recall reading somewhere that, in order for it to work as a calendar, there was effectively a week between the end of one year and the start of the next. Also recall some note that, because this week technically didn't exist, nothing you did in said week would be legally held against you. Granted, I am not 100% on the veracity of this claim, so take it with a grain of salt...but it does fall into that "too stupid that it might actually be plausible" category.
@@SwordlordRoy wouldn't that just be an early version of a leap year?
during the whole rapture countdown I was doing the same thing that lisa was doing in the episode lisa the skeptic, sitting and reading a book.
I feel like the Y2K scare should be taught to kids, like hey, panicking is bad, don't do that
9:04 and 12:13, those heartbreaking moments when you actually want to strangle them, bitch slap, and rob every single person of following the wrong person who's predicting the end of the world and calculus bullshit.
I remember where I was when this happened. Fort Benning Georgia in holding barracks before you get sent to basic training. I saw what the day was and remembered it was suppose to be the end of the world. I had a good laugh. But a small part of me was hoping it was true so I wouldn't have to go to basic training.
12:30
'did you hear the great news? The world is gonna end!'
That sais it all about this sort of people.
I think you guys missed at 38:22 because you were still laughing at the "Did you pay for that cross?", but Mary was saying "Here, have another Bloody Me" and that just fucking slayed me XD
You should watch his "He Will Not Divide Us" video.
videoS
Yeah.
Francesco Lombardip
Also known as "anons are racists."
The only drama at the time for me was a START teacher getting fired and us elementary kids blaming the principal
"Nate, give me a minute, I'm gonna tell you when the world's gonna end."
Please tell me, I must know!
I’m a Christian, and I’m pretty cool. I eat frosted flakes and play Persona. Can I have a high five? Edit: damn auto correct, forested flakes, I swear...
You're going to get a low five and you're going to like it.
I prefer my flakes frosted to forested, but you can still have a five.
Vasarcdus man, try them forested. They’re natural and more organic.
D T dang. Maybe next time then...
Very well. *High Five*
Gotta love that GTA 5 "Act 2" doomsday heist theme playing at 17:55
the sun will end us all in 10.4 billion years
shaw miserix No the sun is within our atmosphere, below the dome and its tiny and it ain't going anywhere. The earth is flat. You've been lied to.
@@Iankameel Are you seriously still trying to troll with this low effort shit? Trolling used to be an art, autistic and retarded fucks like you ruined it.
@@Nyx_2142 I know right? everyone knows that Earth is a dodecahedron.
Likely long after humanity goes extinct
Plz react to internet historian: he will not divide us complete series
I remember this and tbh I was 12 and more concerned about my math homework than I was about crazy people bleating about the end of days.
Well nicola Tesla once lit all butterflys in a couple mile radius on fire with blue flames. By accident. Imagine the devastation he can make trying
he tried to sell a death ray to the US military. not a joke.
@@Yal_Rathol not surprised
@@Yal_Rathol Are you saying he literally built the Death Star's laser beam?!
@@Green-Raccoon777 more like a lightning gun than a laser gun, and it didn't actually work, but yes.
I so badly want to see the reactions of people who went into debt or just fucked up their lives waking up on May 22 2011
It'd be beautiful
Its 2019, where the apocalypse at?
Me, a survivor of the 2020 corona rapture: "Its here"
Funny how everyone's reaction was "Let's run up a shitload of debt because it's not gonna matter for us!" when I'm pretty sure that action would mean them getting left behind for being sinners...
But why should the rapture specifically start happening in the US? If it should start at 6 pm in every timezone on May 21, then it should start happening somewhere at New Zealand. The fact that it didn't start happening there was pretty much a hint that it would never happen.
I feel like Israel makes more sense because that’s where Jerusalem and is considered to be the kingdom of God.
don't worry, the Rapture is unbiblical, not believed by the actual church established by Christ. The Rapture was invented by an American Protestant in 1830, and this is why it tends to be very America-centric.
12:35 Nate just described the Scarlet Crusade
Yeah pretty much
Lost my shit when he turned his cap around to calculate the end o the world, full on Ash from Pokemon "shit just got real" moment there
16:37 let me get my calculator
The Church of Renegades is never gonna happen, is it?
That knock at 23:01 gets me even when I know it's coming
Watching this in 2022, and hearing them talk about Overwatch making smart choices is hilarious.
I actually took advantage of the "revised" rapture date. My BIRTHDAY is October 21st. Told believers that would get in my face about their religion that I fooled Camp into believing it would be an earthquake, and that I was just biding my time before I roasted everything.
Who's the guy on the right again? He's great to the dynamic
Chad/Hat Guy
Happy End of the World Anniversary, y'all!
YES! I was looking forward to that one.
Ah, I remember that day. I spent each day the next week posting on facebook my 'survival journals' following the rapture. Good fun.
Looking at how he calculated the rapture first time...
Was this all just the biggest april fools joke ever?
Someone’s like “the worlds going to end on that day” another person says “No it’s just Monday”
12:17 my brain whenever pure randomness happens
i remember my grandmother saying the world would end november 2011, and it gave me anxiety until that day
I think you got the Aztec & Maya confused, Nate
41:16
I believe the correct term is "game-end".
12:14 I felt that too, Nate. We all did.
Please react to his dramatic reading of My Immortal!!
You didn't know? The rapture was going to happen that day, but was thwarted thanks to the sacrifice of Randy Macho Man Savage. He died elbow dropping the 4 horsemen for our sins.
Legend says he summoned a wrestling ring by snapping into a slim jim
triggering of shia by internet historian, when?
6:58 best joke of 2019 (in my opinion)
"I've seen this before."
"You've seen this before?!"
"11 times, as a matter of fact."
Please react to: "A Good Enough Summary of Kingdom Hearts"
I honestly love watching conspirators as long as they are harmless.
the problem with 2012, is that everyone entirely misinterpreted the mayan "prediction" people saw the end of the mayan calendars cycle and said "welp that must mean they thought that was the end of the world!" when in reality it just meant their calendar cycle was going to start a new, if they had still been around until 2012, they wouldve been having partying and celebrating the start of the new cycle. they didnt actually think the world was going to end. 2012 was just a bunch of people saying "well the calendar ends here so it must be the end of the world to them!" nah it wasnt.
I imagine those people don’t have calendars.
I like to think that God has Internet Historian's voice.
Nah. James Earl Jones or John Facenda.
The Permian Extinction (The Great Dying) killed 83% of life on the planet, and it took the earth 10 million years to recover from it. Watching this makes me wish it was happening right now...
Fyi, the mayans weren't the first to use the concept of the zero. It was the arabs. I could be wrong though
indians actually. the arabic number system didn't start with a zero, the indians added it. the babylonians were the first to invent the zero, but the mayans, indians and babylonians all independantly thought it up at different times.
These videos are always great
34:11 dude that sound like psychic pebbles
Talks about Blizzard being on the up and up.
Me " OOF THAT DIDNT AGE WELL
Yeah I'm pretty sure numerology is also spoken against in the Bible since that was also one of the things the Pagan Cults and Witch Doctors tried to do.
his guess wasn't that bad, he was only 9 years off.
Dude, who knew how powerful your sentient ballsack would become. That’s a seriously powerful Palpatine package lol.
Love Nick's Meatwad impression. It's spot on.
MY MAN IS SPITTING STRAIGHT FACTS
no religion in the history of earth can tell you
only jehovah's witnesses will know when that time comes.
tell your friend in the glasses with the beard he has my respect!
It make me sad that he was sure of it and just at the end of his life he realized he had sinned :(
"I think Doom Eternal is going to be the first possible pitfall"
**AHEM** Built in spyware that isn't deletable **AHEM**
If one person says something stupid, other stupid people are sure to follow.
I'm an atheist and don't like religion at all but I feel bad for the guy. He truly seemed to believe and his whole world got crushed in a second.
That math was schizophrenia at its best
Man who knew the end of the world was a few days before my birthday
The Mayan’s never predicted the end of the world. Modern people said, wait, what happens when the Mayan’s calendar reaches the end? Well, what happens when we reach the end of a modern year? Another one begins.
The end of every event or plan or whatever can’t end in the end of the world.
29:27 What, new anime are coming out? I better put them on my watch list.
Although, which ones do I want to watch first? So many choices to choose.
God I hope you react to more of these
I love these podcasts
10:44 Those "barbarians" you were talking about were the Aztecs. The Mayans made the calendar. And while there were _some_ sacrifice due to religious beliefs, they were by and large simple (non-lethal) blood offerings to keep the world from literally ending (according to their deep beliefs).
The Aztecs were the motherfukers that nobody liked, that were known to use an obsidian knife to cut open their victims and pull out their heart, and kicking their dead carcass down the steps on a routine basis.
Their religious beliefs may have differed, but don't put disrespect on the Mayans like that.
I have that exact same kenny plushie
A mom killed her children and herself the night before. I feel like someone broke in that man’s home and killed him.
Tesla was ugly ?
Look in the mirror guys ... Don't throw stones in a glass house ...
These are jokes! Not that critical.
8:00. Well, that didn't age well. :(
Who else would just want to go back in time to the moment that the rapture was said to happen at and and go to New York while they were all recording and just Rick Roll everyone once it hit 6:00 pm or even before it got to 6:00 pm? Because I would, and just say after rick rolling everyone to look up my channel in 2021 or some year possibly breaking the time space continuum.
Honestly I wasn’t even aware of this.
The only doomsday thing i freak out a little is 2012
The ballsack stuff is proof your improv is seriously improving
I think we just saw the Making Of 2012’s Visuals
Their crops didn't run dry because of human sacrifice, it's because of the invasion of Europeans. Also their society was much more organised then what Americans give them credit for in media.
@Fer Morales Droughts are a natural disaster, it has nothing to do with human sacrifice or "barbaric" culture. If you know ANYTHING about agriculture, then you know that burning plant materials returns nutrients to the soil, and slash and burn only becomes ineffective when you have TOO MANY people, not because you sacrificed a whole bunch.
So no, you can try to ignore the ill effects of the European invasion of America and blame everything on "barbarism", but that's just euro-centric and delusional.
@Fer Morales I admit that I am no expert in agriculture, nor do I claim to be. What I do know is that slash and burn becomes ineffective when done too frequently, which is a sign of overpopulation not underpopulation. They didn't sacrifice each other till they all died out, as the renegades implied.
A major loss in population during droughts is normal, it has happened around most parts of the world, food supplies dwindle and people die out. What happens after that is the rebuilding and redistribution of the populace, that's a little difficult when there are men with deadly weapons and disease trying to pacify "infidels". Just google Spanish Conquest of the Maya if you want to know more.
My point is that they didn't "Sacrifice so many people that their crops ran dry" which is a rhetoric that has been expressed quite frequently.