GIVE ME UR REASON Y U THINK THE MAYANS disappeared?

Question

GIVE ME UR REASON Y U THINK THE MAYANS disappeared?

Answer 1

my guess...I have been to the ruins and I think I got a feel for things...I know you are laughing.

They saw Venus a few times are were in shock.  Then they found out those guys were just using a calender.  They were exposed.

I also saw how these smart people were walling themselves off from everyone.  There were some major haters.  and they were not smart enough to have the arrogance to do that.  They couldn't defend themselves against such strong disdain.  

I'm not an anthropologist, I'm a high level sales person that knows people.  I checked out their houses and talked to the people there.  I think I have it figured out.

Answer 2

They were some magical dudes...I don't think they disappeared at all...They just learned how to make themselves invisible, and they are still here walking around and doing their Mayan thang...we just can't see them

Answer 3

They just died out of the population race and cuz of the white man

Answer 4

Disease brought by the Spaniards.. Their immune systems couldnt adapt... Also intermarriage as well...

Answer 5

they didnt all disappear

mostly because white people took over their land

Answer 6

Aye the Spanish not only wiped them out with the diseases they brought, but the fact that the mayans had little to no actual weapons, ie swords, etc. they didnt stand a chance.

basically mexicans is a spanish/mayan hybrid..

its a mixture.. the spanish completely destoryed everything in sight, and used mayans as slave labor to build spanish outposts...

it was basically like europe coming to north america..

the native americans had nothing to compare to the european weapons...

Answer 7

The Mayas dissappeared (more correctly dispersed), because their growing population finally ecologically exhausted their major population centers.  There is debate as to whether they then became assimilated by surrounding cultures or were militarily dominated.

When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in their territory, Maya civilization had already declined and the jungle had taken over their temple and pyramid sites.

Answer 8

They did not disappear.  They just changed their names.  The modern population of Mexico and Guatemala are the descendants of the ancient Maya.

Answer 9

soobielo, has a good point. When the sanctimonious Spaniards arrived with christianity and four diseases the new world had never experience first the diseases and then christianity decimated much of the new world population.

Of course, the Spaniards, over come with delusions of grandeur, compounded by their religious fantasy, pronounced themselves "conquerors" forthwith.

Delusion being the main method that most people employ to maintaine a modicul of sanity.

Regarding the Mayans I can tell you what a graduate student in Mexico told me at the ruins at Ushmal.

Mayan life was abumdant and things werew going well. The priests were astronomers first and religious sooth-sayers second. Their math had the zero about 1000 years before the Greeks gave it to the Egyptians.

The Mayans had been saved from starvation by the astronomer priests who, understanding the seasons, advised the Mayans when to plant and what to plant greatly improving the hit and miss system previously employed by the natives.

The proper planting time produced abundant crops and thangs, as they say, wuz good! The priest knowing full well that the average Joe cannot accept good advice from just anybody since if the average Joe does not know something, he assumes that nobody else knows it either.

Knowing this human failing, the priests gave credit to the make-believe rain god in order to give their astronomical knowledge of weather and therefore prediction as to what and when to plant, more umph!

In what must have been one of the worst examples in history of somebody smart being honest with the average mind a young priest owned up that there really was no rain god Chac.

That the priests themselves studied the heavens and knew the weather patterns typical for each year.

The very same true believer peasants who tithed sometimes as much as 75,000 turkeys a day to various priests across the land, rose up in indignation and slew most of the priests.

It took only about three years before the Mayans were again planting the wrong crops at all the wrong trimes. Starvation was just around the corner.