The theory that the Ancient Mayan civilization perished so abruptly due to

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drought, What is your thoughts? This theory focus's around a rare drought believed to have hit central America at the time of the Mayan demise. Evidence known to support this, Soil samples in Yucatan, Precipitation records from the last 200 years, Hand written documents written by the Spaniards dating back to the 1600's.. The soil samples showed signs of the greatest drought known in 7000 years at the time of Mayan demise, Rain records show several drought times in the area and the written documents wrote to be sent to superiors across seas speak of drought to an unbearable degree, asking to be sent help.. so regardless that the Mayan area is in the middle of a rain forest,, evidence of severe drought is well known.
That seems to be moderately reasonable chiffon, But what bothers me about that theory is that the Mayans had hundreds of water reservoirs some capable of containing and holding 100 million gallons of water. So a flood happening seems unlikely to me
 
interesting, but i think that it was disease brought over from Europe that killed 98% of all native Americans because they didn't have a good enough immune system to fight all these new things that had been brought over from Europe.

Maybe it was a mixture of both.
 
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