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How did the Mayans perish?
1On June 5th, 952, a stone tablet engraved with numbers and patterns was excavated from the ruins of a temple in palenque, an ancient Mayan city on the Mexican plateau. At that time, people only regarded this as a sculpture of ancient Mayan mythology. But in the 1960s, after people went into space by spaceship, American scientists who participated in space research suddenly realized that what was carved on the slate of palenque was a picture of an astronaut driving a spaceship! Although it has undergone patterned deformation, the air inlet, exhaust pipe, joystick, pedal, rudder, antenna, hose and various instruments of the spacecraft are still clearly visible. When this photo was sent to the American Space Center, the space experts were amazed and agreed that it was an ancient spaceship. It seems unbelievable, but it is a certain fact.

Therefore, some scholars have put forward a bold view: they think that in distant ancient times, a group of intelligent aliens with high civilization may have appeared in the tropical jungle of America. They walked out of the spaceship, taught all kinds of advanced knowledge to the Maya in primitive times, and then drifted away. They were regarded as gods by the Mayans. The profound knowledge that is difficult to understand in Mayan culture was taught by aliens. The carving on the slate in palenque is also a copy of the alien astronauts by the Mayans. When the aliens left, they promised the Mayans to return to the earth, but they didn't come back in the days when the Mayans chased them and the priests predicted the return of the gods. Therefore, this led to the loss of the Maya's confidence in their religion and priestly rule, which led to the collapse of the entire national psychology, and finally made people leave their hometowns one after another and separate. Maya culture just disappeared.

Perhaps people will accuse this view of being too hypothetical. But even if we change this statement, we still can't fully explain the mysterious connotation of Mayan culture, many incredible miracles and the reasons for its sudden disappearance.

Maya occupied Yucatan Peninsula, modern Honduras and modern Guatemala. Its history can be traced back to around 2000 BC, but its heyday was between 600 and 900 AD. Although they lived in the period of agricultural development, they still created many monuments and ceremony centers similar to the brilliant monuments in Egypt. The scale of these buildings is amazing because their religious beliefs are quite simple. Although the development level of its architecture is not very high, it is still ahead compared with other ethnic groups of its time. They invented a unique writing language, which they can't understand until today. Only three books were written by Mayans, and the rest were destroyed by Europeans who were considered heretics.

The Mayans are very proficient in mathematics and astronomy, and their ability to understand and predict planetary motion is calculated according to the calendar, which is often shown in some important ceremonies. They live in a small village, and whenever something important happens, they can get together to discuss it. This small village no longer exists. Noble soldiers and priests rule this society.

In the 10 century, the Mayans began to decline, probably because of earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Since then, many important ceremony places have been abandoned. Soldiers from the center of Mexico invaded Maya city, and they attacked in droves in the rainforest. /kloc-in the 0/7th century, the Spanish seized the last Mayan center, but today, the population living in Yucatan Peninsula is nearly 2 million less than before.

1. sank to the bottom of the sea with our ancestors-according to relevant information, some scholars believe that there was once a continent in the Atlantic Ocean with prosperous economy and developed culture, but one day more than 10000 years ago, it sank to the bottom of the sea overnight and was destroyed. Opening the map, we found that Daxie is close to Yucatan Peninsula. German scientist Mock believes that the Mayans started their new era on June 5th, 8499 BC 13. The Mayans have a saying that "the world is dominated by five suns, and one sun represents an era". Therefore, we believe that if the above materials are true and reliable, then perhaps the Mayans will be descendants of the surviving Australasians and Native Americans. They are well aware of the destruction of their ancestors. They thought that one day after A.D., another era would be extinct, so they moved northward collectively, and one day later, they jumped into the Atlantic Ocean collectively to escape the extinction of the world.

2. Internal riots-According to archaeological research, when the Aztecs arrived at Tonuakan, the ancient city was deserted. Archaeologists believe that there was probably a riot that overthrew the theocracy of monks at that time, and the fact that all the existing gods were beheaded and the sacrificial temples were destroyed also hinted at this. Based on this, we speculate that the disappearance of Mayan culture may be the same. A large number of sacrifices and oppression made the people rebel, so the Mayans ruled the world and had a big riot, which led to the demise of Mayan culture.

3. Sacrificing and killing too many people-

The ancient Mayans had many similarities with the Aztecs. They think that the sun is going to be destroyed, they think that their actions can continue the existence of the sun, and they must make some self-sacrifices to keep the sun shining and prevent it from dying. Their understanding led to feeding the sun with human heart and blood. The Mayans were proud to be used as sacrifices, and the hearts of slave owners and slaves were dug out and dedicated to the sun, so more and more people died for it. It is said that in the16th century, the Spanish have found136,000 skulls on the skeleton of the sacrificial head! At that time, in order to celebrate the completion of the Great Pyramid of Trautian, during the four-day sacrifice, the slave owners actually killed 360,000 people! We believe that most of the people used for sacrifice are healthy people in the clan. Frequent sacrifices increased the number of people killed. The decline of Maya may be the reason for the disappearance of Mayan culture.

Of course, there is also a saying that you left with aliens, but that statement lacks scientific basis.

Recently, archaeologists found that a highly dense agricultural system had been produced in the late Mayan society. The characteristics of this system are mainly reflected in the management of land: on the sloping land, after clearing the jungle, the land will be built into a platform to prevent soil erosion; In low humidity areas, grid drainage ditch is used; Not only can the flood be eliminated, but also the silt in the ditch can be used to raise the water surface. At that time, the Maya's main crops were corn and soybeans, as well as cotton and cocoa. However, soil erosion in tropical rain forest areas is very serious. Today, three-quarters of these areas are highly sensitive to erosion. In this area, once the forest vegetation is destroyed, the soil will also be lost. The demand for agricultural land, wood and fuel makes the disappearance of forests inevitable; Related to this is the increase of river sediment content, which leads to the siltation of lowlands and ditches and the rise of groundwater level. In addition, the Mayan society did not raise livestock, the supply of organic fertilizer in the soil was insufficient, and the deterioration of environment and resources directly led to the decline of land productivity, which threatened the survival of Mayan civilization. In 800 AD, the output of grain began to decline, and the excavation of tombs showed that infants and women died in large numbers because of insufficient nutrition. What followed was that the rulers and the army intensified the exploitation of farmers and frequently launched wars between cities. In the following decades, the high mortality rate led to a sharp drop in population, and the city gradually became a ruin, leaving only a few survivors in the whole jungle, and another high civilization disappeared into history.