USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scholars have suggested a number of potential reasons for the downfall of Maya civilization in the southern lowlands, including overpopulation, environmental degradation, warfare, shifting trade routes and extended drought. It’s likely that a complex combination of factors was behind the collapse.

Detailed explanation-2: -A severe, prolonged drought created an agricultural crisis that swept all of the Maya kingdoms into history. That’s the popular narrative for the fall of the ancient Maya.

Detailed explanation-3: -From the late eighth through the end of the ninth century, something unknown happened to shake the Maya civilization to its foundations. One by one, the Classic cities in the southern lowlands were abandoned, and by A.D. 900, Mayan civilization in that region had collapsed.

Detailed explanation-4: -For hundreds of years, the ancient Maya flourished in cities located in and around present-day Guatemala. Then, during a period ranging roughly from A.D. 900 to 1100, they rapidly began abandoning their sites-moving so abruptly they even left unfinished construction projects or inscription in their wake.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although the Mayan people never entirely disappeared-their descendants still live across Central America-dozens of core urban areas in the lowlands of the Yucatan peninsula, such as Tikal, went from bustling cities to abandoned ruins over the course of roughly a hundred years.