Me, being an atheist with an open mind to philosophy has asked this question in my spare time on several different occasions. It's a big mystery to me how suddenly the Mayan cities had just turned into ghost towns. Don't you find it interesting as well? Common theory that I found through textbooks at my school lead me to beleive that it was the soil that became less fertile, due to fires and erosion or a riot from farmers. However, I somehow doubt that's the case.
Seeing as I'm extremely superstitious, here's my theory, call it stupid or what you will, just say why you think it's stupid:
Well, the Mayan Civilization was a Theocracy, which is a civilization ruled by religious leaders. Like high priests and whatnot. So from that I think that they learned too much, which is where a few other ideas come into the theory. Their calender, yes, stops on 2012. Since I could find no time of when the calendar was finished, I'll continue. I beleive that the theocracies gods punished the Mayans for finding the ending of time. This is just a crackpot supernatural theory though that includes only a dabble of logic to piece these things together. But this is my current opinion should it be relating to philosophy in any way.
My more "believable" idea is a full on full out riot against the theocracy for a reason not known to us. I remember seeing a theory of a massacre in the several different cities on the History channel. I think that for some reason, the theocracy caused a riot, and the people became uncontrollable and killed each other during the heat.
So what's your opinions? And why do YOU think the Mayans disappeared?
You guys! They couldn't have died in their city! There are NO bodies there! There couldn't have been disease or famine and definitely NO warfare!
That's not what the media says, they found bones.
They didnt dissapear,they joined my Darkness army and became the undead,one of my crew is my avatar.
If you're not gonna be serious about this, go away - _ - seriously, that's aggravating.
Also, conquistadors didn't find the america's until the 1200's M.E./A.D., I beleive. I just plain find it to be amazing how they could suddenly dissapear in the matter of a year or two.
I also have another superstitious theory to it: Mayhaps the theocracy had a rapture? And those who didn't totally beleive in the religion made the aztecs and whatnot.
I also have another superstitious theory to it: Mayhaps the theocracy had a rapture? And those who didn't totally beleive in the religion made the aztecs and whatnot.
Thats very possible, the Mayans were very religious. And the Aztec did form a few hundred years after the Mayans fell. And the Aztec where wandering thru central Mexico looking for a home until they found Tenochtitlan. Maybe they were former Mayans that needed a home. But of Corse the Aztec speak/spoke Nahuatl, i think, and the Mayans didnt they spoke a lot of different stuff i think. But maybe there was s group of Mayans who spoke Nanuatl, im not sure how old it is. But I dont fucking know enough about it.
I heard a supposition that they came into contact with a mutated flu virus that the population had no immunity to. With the close proximity of people in their cities the virus spread and killed almost all of them...dunno if that is true but that is what I heard. I think that they diminished due to a conglomeration of bad events...
I heard a supposition that they came into contact with a mutated flu virus that the population had no immunity to. With the close proximity of people in their cities the virus spread and killed almost all of them...dunno if that is true but that is what I heard. I think that they diminished due to a conglomeration of bad events...
Isn't that how alot of native people died when western explorers "doscovered" them. They just passed on all these new diseases they had no immunity for.
Some 88 theories have been proposed as to why the Maya civilization has disappeared. At this rate, it's unlikely we'll ever know why or how they disappeared from our planet. Archaeological findings suggest to us several things: foreign invasion, epidemics, droughts, collapse of trade routes, social turmoil, etc.
Recently, the systemic ecological collapse theory has gained some note in the academic community. For now, there is no theory that has a definite advantage over the others.
In the future, we may have the ability and technology to discover more about the Maya civilization and their mysterious disappearance.
