The Maya were a very great empire, that spanned a long amount of time. They managed for themselves very nicely, yet they suddenly collapsed. Nobody knows why this happened, but
here is my theory.
(Copan jungle)
My opinion is that the Maya were starved to death from the rainforest dying out. This combines with another theory in saying that the Maya then overfarmed the land. In that case, the erosion would be proved true because overfarming caused erosion. Since they might not have known what the erosion was coming from, they would have left their cities, possibly even believing the erosion was a sign from the gods, and moved into the jungle, and then starved out.
(Eroded area)
However, in the Copan valley, there are still about the same number of people descended from the Maya as there were Maya then, which means that the starvation might not have been that bad.
(Maya Skull from Copan)
This is one of the Nazca Line drawings in the ground. They were supposed to please the sky gods. This is a monkey.
Another drawing
A headless bird!
A Nazca monkey on a pot.
This is a sort of Paracas tapestry. It depicts sme sort of bird-like animal. It probably was one of their gods.
Here is some gold from the Paracas tribe. It is a broken fragment of something that looks like a pot
This is the small territory of the Paracas Land.
This is a crazy Paracas skull. They probably did surgery on this skull to make it like this. The Paracas might be the first to perform surgery.
This is the Chavin Tribe's domain. The dark red shows the part the Chavin held, with their influences in the lighter red.
This is an image of one of their gods. It is very large, though you can't tell from the picture
This is a Chavin Tribe pot. It looks like a teapot, almost, but it has a gold handle with a spout.
This is a very odd sculpture. It depicts a huge god blowing its nose.
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