Spirits of the Jaguar

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  • Premiered: Dec 1996
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Sunday at 18
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
The Forging of a New World
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 01, 1996
Examines the formation of Central America and the Caribbean Sea and the arrival of wildlife and then people.
1x2
Forests of the Maya
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 08, 1996
The Maya developed from simple hunters and farmers into the greatest civilization of the Americas. Then, some 1,100 years ago, they mysteriously and suddenly abandoned their great jungle cities.
1x3
Hunters of the Caribbean Sea
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 15, 1996
The Tainos came from South America to the islands of the Caribbean, where they evolved into a highly peaceful marine society. But within 50 years of greeting Columbus, they were all but gone—nearly eradicated through slavery and torture.
1x4 Show finale
The Fifth World of the Aztecs
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 22, 1996
The Aztecs, renowned for blood-thirstiness, sacrificed human victims to the gods in honor of the gods' own sacrifice of themselves in fire to create the sun for the "fifth world"—the world of the Aztecs.

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