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It 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! http

• 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 ago
    Not 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.