A new report featured in Livescience.com reconfirms other research suggesting that the great Mayan civilization in Central America collapsed due to a megadrought.
Researchers examined core sediments taken from Belize’s famous Blue Hole lagoon and found strong evidence of a sharp decline in tropical storms over two separate century-long periods.
The first, from around A.D. 700 to 800, coincides with a time in which the great Mayan empire, which had flourished for hundreds of years, to fracture and move north. The second, from around A.D. 1000 to 1100, coincides with a further decline of the great early American society.
It is theorized that there was a shift in the primary belt of tropical storms, which would have caused the droughts, making life in early American large cities virtually impossible.
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