3. The Mayan Collapse - Ruins Among the Trees

WATCH WITH VIDEO:    • 3. The Mayans - Ruins Among the Trees   In the tropical forests of Central America, vast stone pyramids slowly crumble beneath the trees. In this episode, we look at that great romantic mystery: the fall of the Classic Maya Civilization. Find out how this great civilization grew up among environmental conditions that no other civilization has ever contended with, learn about the fatal flaws that lay beneath its surface, and what happened after its final, cataclysmic collapse. Support Fall of Civilizations on Patreon:   / fallofcivilizations_podcast   Books on the Maya: UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/fallofci... US: https://bookshop.org/shop/fallofcivil... Affiliate links, purchases support the show. Credits: Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas Voice Actors: Bryan Thsiobi Jacob Rollinson Jake Barrett-Mills Helena Bacon 0:00 Introduction 5:39 Stephens and Catherwood Rediscover the Maya 10:24 Diego de Landa and the Burning of Maya Books 16:35 Who Were the Maya? 19:29 How Did the Maya Survive in the Yucatan? 26:08 Tikal 27:34 Teotihuacan: The Distant Superpower 31:57 Calakmul vs Tikal 40:48 Why Did the Maya Cities Go Silent? 48:08 The Worst Drought in 7,000 Years 52:00 Copan's Collapse 58:34 How Did Tikal Fall? 1:02:28 What Caused the collapse of the Mayans? Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/ Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/