FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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Internal Conflicts
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Volcanic Eruptions
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Overuse of land
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Ate poisoned food
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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: -Many reasons have been put forward as to why the Classic Maya culture collapsed but historians generally agree on the three most important or most likely: warfare between city-states, overpopulation, and drought.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Maya have lived in Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula since at least 1800 B.C. and flourished in the region for thousands of years. According to countless studies, the Maya civilization collapsed between A.D. 800 and 1000.
Detailed explanation-4: -Strained agricultural land may have also led to collapses in crop yields. And overpopulation–as estimates range that between 3 million and 11 million Maya inhabited the area–may have precipitated a scarcity of resources, further destabilizing the once infallible elites.