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We can read about the Roman collapse and probably have witnessed British empire peak and start collapsing (shrinkage may be better wording, collapse may mean el
by mattbrewsbytes 3y ago
We can read about the Roman collapse and probably have witnessed British empire peak and start collapsing (shrinkage may be better wording, collapse may mean elimination in some minds) in last couple centuries with US and India declaring independence via various ways. Is there anything known about the Mayan civilization collapse from that timeframe? As far as I know (high school level history recollection here) Europeans hadn’t discovered the American continents for a few hundred years after that collapse in 800-1000 CE. I mean I don’t recall Vikings ever going that far south if they did get to what is Canada today. Given that it’s the Yucatán Peninsula maybe a major weather event like a hurricane caused people to flee?
- jl6 3y agoJust one small point which you may already know, but I wasn’t sure from the way you phrased it… The British empire grew and peaked predominantly after the US became independent.
- mceachen 3y agoIt seems that the consensus is that Mayans left the cities due to drought and political shifts. The people and much of the culture is still there, though! https://www.livescience.com/why-maya-civilization-collapsed.html https://www.livescience.com/why-maya-civilization-collapsed....
- justrealist 3y ago> left the cities I think that's a euphemism for population collapse. The people in the cities didn't revert to pastoralism... they died, and the people already living outside the cities reverted to subsistence farming.
- TheCleric 3y agoNot necessarily. All the cities did not collapse simultaneously, so it may also be a population shift from a city under drought to one that is not.