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Because the Spanish gave them smallpox. Or was that the Incas?... Aztec?
 

the calendar end was determined when they made it, thousands of years before the spanish arrived.
 

Right, but you suggest that they knew the end would be 2012. What I'm saying is maybe they divined that 2012 would be the year the last person with enough Mayan blood to be considered Mayan would die. All thanks to your friends the Spaniards.
 

I had not thought thought of that.
the spanish really did destroy that blood thirsty civilazation.