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There are many reasons for the decline of the Maya, but one of the main reasons is that their environmental demands exceed the capacity of the land. At the peak, about 15 million people occupied the Maya world. The overpopulation of Maya's big cities is beyond the level that Maya's political and social networks can support and is suspected to lead to social unrest and revolution. Frequent conflict with fighting power like Tolteks' invasion of Chichen Itza was suspected to make Maya escape from their city. Recent research has found evidence of serious drought, deforestation, and a decline in the number of large wildlife that began around the year 800 AD. This was consistent with the sudden decrease in new construction. Human bones discovered from this time showed signs of severe malnutrition. And it may be the driving force behind the raid. Maya civilization experienced a short period of renaissance during this period, but the continuous environmental constraints played an important role in its eventual decline.

When the Spanish conquistador arrived, most Mayan ruins were abandoned for hundreds of years. Most of their towns have been devastated and replaced by the jungle. The Mayas divided into small villages and towns, lost complicated social classes and rituals, and supported the great civilization at that vertex

Maya in the Spanish colonial era began when Francisco Demonteho asked King Spain the right to conquer the Yucatan Peninsula in 1521. It was much longer than their fight against Aztecs and Incas, Spaniards took 170 years and some expeditions to conquer Maya people. In 1697, the last Maya of Guatemala fell to the home of Tayasal. In Spain's conquest, aid was introduced in Europe because they did not produce immunity. And as a result many Maya population died. The main purpose of an American conquistador is to find a lot of gold and silver. Traces of these precious metals were found to be shipped to the Mayan Kingdom through various trade routes in Colombia and Ecuador, but the Spaniards could not find the wealth they wanted.

Spain colonization requires forced labor and forced conversion to Christianity. The Mayas who refused to give up priesthood religious activities were arrested and tortured for heresy. Maya's artifacts were actively destroyed and all artifacts, except for some scriptures, were burned. However, in 1820 when the colonies came from Spain, the pressure of the Maya who abandoned the culture had disappeared. Today, much of their descendants live in Central America, and they still try to preserve some ancient Mayan cultural practices, using the evolutionary version of Maya.

Guatemala has been the center of the Mayan Kingdom, but today most citizens identify Maya Kingdom. Since the occupation of Spain in the 16th century, the Spanish minority has been firmly dominated by the majority of Maya. Since the early 1960's, the autocratic rule dominated Guatemala. Between 1960 and 1996, about 200,000 Mayas were killed in the civil war in Guatemala. Most people were systematically and systematically killed primarily between 1981 and 1983. Guatemala has been the center of the Mayan Kingdom, but today most citizens identify Maya Kingdom. Since the Spaniard occupied this area in the 16th century, they and their descendants have dominated the local population steadily. Guatemala was independent from Spain in 1821.

Maya's cultural characteristics such as ahau and the emergence of the King can be traced back to 300 BC. In the centuries before the classical era, the Maya Kingdom appeared in an area ranging from the southern coast of Mexico and the Pacific Coast of Guatemala to the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula. Over the centuries the eccentric Maya society gradually gave way to a wealthy elite controlled society that began to build large ritual temples and buildings. The earliest known long-term date, 199 AD tells the classical era when the Maya Kingdom was supporting millions of people. Tikal is the largest kingdom with a population of only 500,000 people. However, the average population of the kingdom is much less, less than 50,000 people.