There has been many theories to how the Maya civilization collapsed. Warfare, rebellion, even not enough food. What I think has happened? I think it was overpopulation. Here is why. The Mayas used too be hunter-gatherers. So they would hunt then gather until a certain resource was gone. Then they would move on. Then they found out how to grow food, and then they became settlers. I think that the population exploded after that. If you can stay in one place and have a stady food supply, why wouldn't the population grow? So, I think that the farms were plentiful, and the population started to grow. What was bad about that?

     More people means more mouths to feed. More mouths to feed means more crops needed to be grown. More crops means more workers. More work means more  z 



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