Why did Mayan civilization disappear?

The reasons for the disappearance of Mayan civilization are controversial. Most people believe that the earthquake and hurricane at that time, together with population explosion, food shortage, peasant riots and alien invasion, caused the decline and decline of Mayan civilization. However, the exact answer has not yet appeared. The solution of this secret is like a jigsaw puzzle, but it has just begun.

All Mayan civilizations are shrouded in a mystery, just like refusing us to analyze and being locked in the dark. In fact, so far, there are many hypotheses about the extinction of Maya in the ninth century.

Great achievements have been made in the development of literature, mathematics, agriculture, art and writing. According to the chronology of Central America, Mayan history is divided into pre-classical period, classical period and post-classical period. The pre-classical period (65438 BC+0500-300 AD) is also called the formative period, during which calendars and characters were invented, monuments and buildings were built.

The classical period was its heyday (from the 4th century to the 9th century), during which the use of characters, the establishment of monuments, the construction of buildings and the exertion of art reached its peak. In the post-classical period (about 9th century-65438+6th century), Chyi Chin, Ithaca, Smal and other city-states rose in the north, and their cultures gradually declined.

Maya never had a unified and powerful empire like China, Egypt and other civilizations. In its heyday, the Maya region was divided into hundreds of city-states. However, Maya countries traditionally belong to the same cultural circle in terms of language, writing, religious beliefs and customs. /kloc-In the 6th century, the Aztec Empire, the inheritor of Mayan culture, was destroyed by the Spanish Empire.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mayan Civilization