The Collapse of Maya Civilization

Introduction

The Mayan Civilization is established in Mesoamerica. The Mayan Civilization was conceived in A.D. 250 and lived throughout the classic time span, of A.D. 250 to 900 and still lives today. The Mayan was furthermore renowned as the Classic Maya.” The Mayan locality was nearly the entire of Mexico. It enclosed nations throughout the Classic Maya for example Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatan Peninsular states of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatan. This was only the Southern part. It furthermore enclosed today's nations. The Mayan Civilization was the biggest civilization in Mesoamerica. It had huge and numerous distinct countrysides (Hommond, 174-180).

The Maya locality, which wrappings Southern and Northern Central of what is renowned today as Mexico, is split up into 3 zones which are: first, the Southern Maya highlands, second, the Southern, furthermore renowned as Central, Maya lowlands, and third is the Northern Maya lowlands. The Mayan civilization was populated (densely), and its heritage was dynamic, which had one of the most dynamic societies ever lived in the world. The Mayan heritage had numerous distinct localities for example the Mayan art, publications, and mathematics. The Mayan civilization is alike to other Mesoamerican civilization, back then and today. Similarities like the land locality and the cultures. The Mayan humanity and heritage was just like the agriculture. The agriculture was, and is still complicated, and diverse. They have distinct procedures of the output of food. Agriculture was what the Mayans counted on, because it assisted with the huge community (Gallem, 174-199).

This directed to one of the ideas if the collapse of the civilization. The Mayans had not went away, neither did the civilization decline. In this present time, there are still descendants of the Mayans back from the classic period. The Southern lowlands of the Mayan Civilization begun falling between the 8th and the 9th century. Everything in the civilization all of a rapid halted, and the persons begun abandoning the land. The structures and monuments that were under building by the Mayan persons were left unfinished. Even the timber plantations and the jungles were deserted. Scientists have established that the cause the civilization collapsed was due to sickness, for example malaria, yellow high warmth, and hookworm. As the civilization dropped, so did everything in it and round it. The collapse of the Mayan civilization influenced Central America throughout that time span in time. There have been numerous ideas surrounding the collapse of the Mayan Civilization (Sharer, 104-177).

Theories for example, the non-ecological idea, which states that the cause the Mayan Civilization collapsed was due to human causes; and the second idea which is the environmental idea, which states that the civilization collapsed due to natural causes. This paper hunts for to discover these ideas and investigate which is more legitimate and is the cause of why the Mayan Civilization collapsed.

 

Theories of Why the Mayan Civilization Collapsed

There are two ideas of why the Mayan Civilization collapsed.

1. The Ecological Theory

The first idea understand as the environmental idea, that states that ...