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The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization

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  • Raymond E. Crist
  • Louis A. Paganini

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. ‘Savages,’ as Europeans considered the Americans of ancient times, never built the great Mayan centers. The builders of great cities in Meso‐America were a well‐organized group with an adequate land base and a rather sophisticated technology. From 300 B.C. to 900 A.D. the Maya developed and perfected an agriculture‐based economy with a well developed commerce, writing, art, science, religion and government, as well as an advanced architecture of monuments, palaces, temples and pyramids. Their civilization reached intellectual heights unique in the Western Hemisphere. What conditions caused its decline and fall? Interpreting the geographic and historical record in the light of the relevant social sciences, one can say a complex of circumstances: ecological abuse, exploitation of the working population, mismanagement, militarism, bad weather, famines, and epidemics.

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  • Raymond E. Crist & Louis A. Paganini, 1980. "The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(1), pages 23-30, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:39:y:1980:i:1:p:23-30
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1980.tb01253.x
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