what happened to all of those ancient civilizations?

Question

when i ask this i mean why didnt people rebuild Pompeii after MT. Vesuvius erupted and Herculaneum... and Atlantis if you believe or not... Egypt, Aztecs and the Myans( i think this is how you spell it) why is it that every thing that shows they existed worn down, Temples, buildings, any kind of structures. Why does it seem like they just pretty much dissapeared off the face of the earth and let their buildings or culture crumble?

well what happened to all the people ... i mean it seams they just disappeared and i know that yes egyptions are still here and all that but what happened it seems people are .. GONE...

Answer 1

For nearly every dissolved culture or nation you will find another culture that was more aggressive and for the most part, better armed. The old is completely destroyed or absorbed by the new. It's called Cultural evolution.

Answer 2

YOu left off the Romans in your ancient civilization list.

Why did the Romans fall apart and become Europe with it's many nations? Bad decisions? Bad Leaders? Bad Luck? One will never know completely. So the next question you should ask is what will happen to your country when it falls apart? Will the individual states become the next powerhouse of national pride?

Why didn't they rbuild Pompeii? No clue, perhaps the people in power thought the land was cursed (same reason we do not normally raised sunk ships (See Titanic or Edmund Fitzgerald) Perhaps the people of power did not have the resources or desire to tear it all down and rebuild...it might have been a cost issue and eventually that place became unvisited. It's the same idea as to why Ghosttowns exist in the West, decades after the Gold Rush passed..

Egypt did rebuild their civilization, but the important thing to remember is that with so many wars and occupations it became easier to meld into the existing occupating force then to rebuild their national identity as a pharoh land. Egypt had a ruler for many thousands of years. Even after the Romans aquired it it was still refered to as Egypt.

The Aztecs were conquered by the Spanish and subsequently by Catholics. Once the people of that area accepted the religion, it meant they accepted the new identity of rule. There was nothing to rebuild because the people had changed so much they were now thinking of themselves as Spanish, not as Aztecs.

The Mayans well they were never as big as history books made them out to be. The only reason they had borders of so much was because it was uncontested. Once someone contested the borders shrunk. The Mayans were only really in power for about 300 years. Before that they were small tribes people, and after that they were what??? Spanish, just like their Aztec neighbors.

Answer 3

Various reasons. One of them S. American ones had a severe drought that caused them to crumble after seeking desperate solutions. Who would want to rebuild next to a volcano that just wiped out a city? Egypt lasted for a long, long time. Sometimes political turmoil can ruin a people's faith in their government and families will slowly move the heck away leaving just a few extremists with noone to lord over. Or a really old civilization might slowly have it's values change and the giant stone buildings aren't maintained and start to fall apart. Who wants to live in a 1,000 year old stone building? If life turned from easy to harsh and survival became an urgent issue then the passing down of oral histories, spoken histories, could become less important. If the only people who knew how to read and write all died, then the markings on tombs can loose their meaning. It can take a large population to maintain a large city space. It takes alot of food and water to maintain a large population. If the means by which those people could get food and water is taken away, most families will move away instead of starving to death.

Answer 4

Pompeii was a relatively small city, just another part of the Roman Empier. It wasn't a civilization.
Atlantis fell due to corruption and geographic changes.
The Roman Empire fell due to corruption, invasions, social struggles, holy wars, slave rebellions, riots, severely bad economic problems, etc..

Egypt was being outdone by neighboring nations in North Africa and the Middle East. Its sphere of influence slowly began to decline and they had to make alliances with other empires emerging. Its life.

I could go on and on. Ancient civilizations fall because they get too old. They eventually are controlled by corrupt individuals. And eventually the Imperiel empire expands too far and can't keep control of its territorys.


The Mayans were conquered by the spanish .Perhaps it was Karma, due to Mayan's harsh way of treating people such as slaves, captive of wars, outside tribes, etc..

No nation, and no Empire especially, is meant to last forever. There should always be change. What if the British Empire lasted forever? What if the Soviet Emprie lasted forever? See my point? All empires become corrupted, and they die but also give the world gifts in science, philosphy, religion, and technology.

Answer 5

They moved on....if you lived in the shadow of a volcano, and it erupts, are you going to continue to feel safe living there? There are some who believe that New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt where it is after Katrina. In the area where I live there is a town built close to the river, and the government bought all the houses in a certain flood zone to add to the park service, the people living there just kept getting flooded out, but couldn't very well sell to someone else. Sometimes it simply isn't feasible to continue on the way you were before. As to what happened to thier culture, culture changes as we learn more about ourselves and our world and how to deal with it, would you prefer to continue doing things like building stone buildings with slave labor, or cooking over an open flame? I suppose you could if you wanted to, well, except that you would have to pay someone to build your stone building. The buildings were left to crumble as people left behind what they represented to them, and went on to further develop culture in a new way. Nothing is permanent here, or we wouldn't grow, we would just be cave men still.....

Answer 6

People got scattered after the civilizatoins fell, kind of like a dark age. . .
Superstition about Vesuvius. . .
Mayans just dissapeared. . .
Why do we just let structures crumble?

Answer 7

3 words to explain it.. The Civilized World, simple.

Answer 8

Time happened. Once a civilization collapses, people move on. You have disease, war, religion, interbreeding, starvation, colonization or foreign invasion and they changed everything.

Answer 9

Nobody knows. It is huge mystery.