The Mayan civilization had a remarkable culture and society in ancient Mesoamerica developed by the Mayan people. The advanced civilization encompasses modern day southern east of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western segments of Honduras and El Salvador. The Mayan civilization had a written language system of hieroglyphs, created the Mayan calendar, constructed pyramid-like structures to cherish its gods, had a polytheistic belief in gods that constitute by images of animals, and advancement in the areas of astronomy and mathematics. (Last Name 136) However, the Mayan civilization state of decline when the Spanish conquistadors invaded and colonized the Mesoamerican region in the sixteenth century and entirely ended of what is left of
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Scholars continue to explore probable reasons for the Mayan civilization collapse and two authors, David Drew and Payson D. Sheets, have internal and outside factor of assumptions on possible explanations. Drew speculates on the internal conditions of overpopulation, agricultural scarcities, diseases, natural disasters to be the principal component fault for the collapse of the Mayan civilization. (137) Sheets emphasized the warlike nature and effects that engaged on the Maya collapse. (137) David Drew and Payson Sheets established their own personal evaluations that give certain possibilities of what caused for the Mayan civilization to fall. Though the undermining uncertainty of the downfall of the Mayan civilization could not be evidently determined before the rediscovery in the nineteenth century, reason to conclude now that the environmental and warfare factors caused the Maya …show more content…
The environment factor showed the concerns of scarcity can be determined by the climate and the ecosystem of the habitat. The Mayans experienced overpopulation which had caused the increase demand of off, while lead to the cultivation that caused over time damages to their surrounding environment from soil erosion. The climate changes challenged the Mayans of severe droughts that leaded to their desire of fear of resources for the future. In addition, the intensification for their survival of water and food leaded to the Mayan society to their warfare of the attainment of scarce resources. All in all, the mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization lead to scholars the curiosity of how advanced the civilization could had
Scholars continue to explore probable reasons for the Mayan civilization collapse and two authors, David Drew and Payson D. Sheets, have internal and outside factor of assumptions on possible explanations. Drew speculates on the internal conditions of overpopulation, agricultural scarcities, diseases, natural disasters to be the principal component fault for the collapse of the Mayan civilization. (137) Sheets emphasized the warlike nature and effects that engaged on the Maya collapse. (137) David Drew and Payson Sheets established their own personal evaluations that give certain possibilities of what caused for the Mayan civilization to fall. Though the undermining uncertainty of the downfall of the Mayan civilization could not be evidently determined before the rediscovery in the nineteenth century, reason to conclude now that the environmental and warfare factors caused the Maya …show more content…
The environment factor showed the concerns of scarcity can be determined by the climate and the ecosystem of the habitat. The Mayans experienced overpopulation which had caused the increase demand of off, while lead to the cultivation that caused over time damages to their surrounding environment from soil erosion. The climate changes challenged the Mayans of severe droughts that leaded to their desire of fear of resources for the future. In addition, the intensification for their survival of water and food leaded to the Mayan society to their warfare of the attainment of scarce resources. All in all, the mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization lead to scholars the curiosity of how advanced the civilization could had