2007-03-22 19:56:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
natural disasters
epidemic disease
climate change
bad agricultural conditions
collapse of trade system
foreign invasion
2007-03-22 21:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by vivet 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no, the mayans would kidnap spanish ships and boats that would stop there and take the children and women and men for their human sacrifice, then the priests found out that the spanish was returning to wipe them out, so they thru their prisoners belongings down a well, and most went underground, while the rest stayed to fight the spanish, who all died and the world thought they were conquered, when in fact, they just went into the underground caverns and tunnel systems. So they live in the Earth now, with many different cultures and people of folklore.
2007-03-22 22:14:51 · answer #2 · answered by AntiOccult 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From about ad 790 to 889, Classic Maya civilization in the lowlands collapsed. Construction of temples and palaces ceased, and monuments were no longer erected. The Maya abandoned the great lowland cities, and population levels declined drastically, especially in the southern and central lowlands.
A number of factors were almost certainly involved, and the precise causes were different for each city-state in each region of the lowlands. Among the factors that have been suggested are natural disasters, disease, soil exhaustion and other agricultural problems, peasant revolts, internal warfare, and foreign invasions. Whatever factors led to the collapse, their net result was a weakening of lowland Maya social, economic, and political systems to the point where they could no longer support large populations. Another result was the loss of inestimable amounts of knowledge relating to Maya religion and ritual.
2007-03-22 23:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by hyder_pillai 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They would capture their human sacrifices and cut their hearts out and throw the body down the pyramid-like temple. I wonder why a barbarian civilization would be conqured by the gold thirsty conquistadors. The Spaainards had weaopons and horses that the Incas and Mayans did not have.
2007-03-23 00:12:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They didn't all die. The prevailing theory now is that a combination of warfare and drought did in the cities. The cities couldn't support their population anymore so people moved back into the jungles to live in small groups.
BTW, this all happened hundreds of years BEFORE the Spanish came.
2007-03-23 06:17:29 · answer #5 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the Mayan empire left their large cities because the cities had gotten too big to feed themselves.
2007-03-22 23:18:13 · answer #6 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Ukraine went to court in Spain and got Spanish troops to attack them because they heard about the slaughter of "innocent children" on the pyramids. They started the Central Bank of Dnepetrovosk, Ukraine on all the gold they made..
2007-03-23 01:56:29 · answer #7 · answered by Chatty82 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Dude, Mel Gibson totally answered this question in Apocalypto! Duuuh! :-P
2007-03-22 21:30:27 · answer #8 · answered by apologetickid 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some Spanish conquestador guy equip 'Quetzalcoatl' materia as well as 'mp x2 damage' materia and 'all' materia in his 3 slots and summoned Quetzacoatl which did a lot of electrical damage and that was that.
2007-03-23 03:08:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think the were doing blood sacrafice and God had the settlers show up and wipe them out and steal all the Gold!
2007-03-22 20:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by bungyow 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋