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The Mayan society was mysterious society that meets its end in around 1300 AD. They were an intellectually advanced society and tracked the orbit of the planets almost 1000 years prior to Galileo’s time. Compared to Europe, they were geniuses. They prospered during Europe’s dark ages when Europe was simply trying to survive. The Mayans lived in a large area spanning Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Somehow this society managed to disappear off the face of the earth without a trace.

It is hard to find out too much of the Mayan History because when the Europeans first came to South America they destroyed much of the Maya’s records. The Mayans wrote in hieroglyphics, which covered their buildings and made up their documents. Just as our phonetic language is everywhere in our present day world, the Mayan world was surrounded by their own form of communication. The Christian Europeans saw these hieroglyphs of the to be a devilish work from a pagan society and were determined to destroy all traces of them. So their own personal records, as of yet, does not give any answers on the civilization’s demise.

Some theories of what happened to the 15 million people that made up the Mayan society include:

• Climate changes
• The people left
• Outbreak of diseases
• Warfare
• Alien abduction

Most intellectuals now agree that the most likely of these explanations is climate change. It is a common belief that the Maya caused their own downfall through their system of farming. They continuously destroyed the beautiful and rich land they occupied through slash and burn techniques. This explanation would force the people to leave their home in order to survive. It would also explain the lack of mass amounts of dead bodies. Three large droughts, lasting almost ten years each occurred within an one hundred year time frame in the Mayan territory. Draughts would have been prolonged or intensified by the harsh treatment that was already inflicted onto the land.

Some say that the Maya people simply left. They may have left because of the draughts, problems with other tribes, or problems within their own government. Disease could have also hit the society harsh enough to wipe them out. Warfare was a huge part of South American tribes at this time. It is possible that the Mayans were defeated and obliterated by a rival tribe. Some even say that Mayan carvings indicate men preparing to leave the earth in a contraption with an interior similar to that of a rocket ship. These people believe that the Mayan were advanced due to their exclusive contact with aliens. These aliens eventually abducted the 15 million Mayans and brought them to their planet. No one really knows what happened to the Mayan society. The mystery that is left is what possibly happened to 15 million people that disappeared without a trace.