How did the Mayans finally disappear?

Many experts have speculated how the Mayans finally disappeared, such as foreign invasion, sudden climate change, earthquake damage and plague epidemic, which may cause large-scale collective migration. However, these assumptions and speculations are unconvincing.

At that time, there was not a strong nation in South America that could fight against Maya, so the theory of foreign invasion was untenable. After several efforts, meteorologists still can't provide evidence to prove that catastrophic climate change occurred in the South American continent between the 8th and 9th centuries. Similarly, the majestic stone buildings of Maya also collapsed, but many of them remained intact after thousands of years of wind and rain, so the theory of earthquake disaster can be ruled out.

As for the plague epidemic, it seems very likely. However, in the territory of tens of thousands of square kilometers occupied by Maya, the possibility of a large-scale epidemic of plague is very small. Moreover, the overall migration of the Mayans has lasted for a hundred years, and a sudden plague can never last so long, so how the Mayans finally disappeared is still an unknown mystery.

Extended data:

Mayan civilization began to lose its luster in the 9th century. The invasion of Spanish colonists gave a final blow to the fragmented Mayan world in the post-classical period, and the spiritual world supporting the civilization system and the books recording them were lost. Only a few Mayans remained in the war. However, there are still nearly 2 million Mayans living in the land of their ancestors and using nearly 25 Mayan languages, but they know almost nothing about the past history.

Some people even say that the mystery of the disappearance of the ancient Maya mentioned above was speculated by modern humans, and there is no evidence because it is only speculation. Some people simply concluded that the disappearance of the ancient Maya was a spatial migration, and some people abandoned the city to return to the original place, which was the need to transform the new original ecological planet, or the people left behind because of the long journey. Due to the long distance of space immigrants, there are also requirements for the number and quality of personnel, so a small number of people have to be left behind.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Maya