User blog comment:DevilWarrior112/Is it real?/@comment-1284355-20100405031505

No, the Maya did not think they could take over the world. I'm an ameteur expert on the Aztecs/Mayans. Anywho, here's where I want to throw my two cents in - while this was one of the Mayan predictions and it probably isn't true, that does not mean that the Mayans were a 'failed' civilization, nor that they were any lesser. The Aztecs and Mayans were actually advanced for their era, compared to the other tribes of the Americas. The only reason that their civilization fell was because greedy, selfish Spaniards attacked and overwhelmed them, even when the Aztecs complied with them.

Also, the Maya were not defeated by the Spanish. In fact, the Mayans simply digressed before the Spaniards arrived. You're thinking of the Aztecs, PGB.

So, I think that there is obviously another explanation and that the Mayan 'predictions' were taken the wrong way.