Mayan Civilization Research Paper

The Mayan Civilization dates to thousands of years old. When people think of the Mayan’s they mostly think of the Mayan calender, which is the one we use now in days. According to our text book “The Cultures”, states “that it takes exactly 52 yrs. of 365 days for a given day to repeat itself.” When we think of the Mayan’s that’s not all that we should think about. Their history goes on beyond that. Mayans were typically those from central America and Mexico who had a completely indigenous way of living. According to our textbook “The Humanities Culture, Continuity & Change”, at around 900 ce, The Mayan civilization collapsed. “Some reasons include overpopulation and accompanying ecological degradation, political competition, along with war”.
One of those mysteries of the collapse of the Mayan Civilization includes climate change. According to Martin Medina-Elizalde an oceanographist,” The

civilization collapse coincided with widespread episodes of drought, their nature and severity remain enigmatic”. To me this means that according to many people and to theories possibly proven by many the collapse of the Mayan Civilization has something to do with all the climate changes that have occurred throughout the years. Certain climatic events occurred that we have yet to discover the nature of them. One of the mysteries related to this aspect includes the precipitations occurring and the excess of rainfall before its collapse. After its collapse the rainfall downsized significantly.
One other theory according to Takeshi Inomata, from the University of Arizona Anthropology professor and archaeologist, “First you would find small waves whom were tied together with warfare and political instability, and then right after came the collapse. The theory that Takeshi presents before us could be very accurate. Let’s remember that back then there was a great political war rising. Back then we don’t have the control that there is today when handling
political turmoil and instability. As some places in the Mayan civilization recovered other very much collapsed completely.
To me the theory that mostly makes sense is the first one I discussed.

To me there is no better mystery then the climate changes that are thought to have changed the world. Back then the climate changes and rainfalls could have cause erosion on the Earth and have caused decay thus the Mayan ruins disappearing. One other thing to support onto that is that we have yet to figure out why those natural disaster occur. If you look at today we have seen many hurricanes forming in the ocean and as they move through hot waters there intensify, but the mystery is why are they formed and why do they cause such great destruction. All we do is receive clues but with research still being done today I believe that we can get down to the great mystery. Still today there is no certain clear theory on why the Mayan Civilization collapsed. I honestly don’t think that there will ever be a clear reason but there will be many theories: those the ones already created and those the will be created in the years to come. This will happen through testimonies and research in those indigenous

places.