Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe ... likely had abundant crops when Maya civilization collapsed during the eighth ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived ... contest theories that attribute the collapse to increased warfare, drought, agricultural ...

You can’t escape taxes, even in the Ancient Mayan civilization. Maya rulers levied taxes on citizens who were paid for agricultural goods or labor. Conquered areas also had to pay tribute ...