Thursday, November 6, 2008

Why I think the Mayans collapsed

I think the Mayans collapsed towards the end of the Classic Period because of a chain reaction between weather problems and crop disease. I would say it all started with the weather being really wet, which probably led to the spreading of the "diplodia ear rot" disease. The disease is caused by warm temperatures and lots of soil moisture, which was caused by the weather because it rained really often, so naturally the soil would be wet. This would also explain why, when archaeologists talked with modern farmers in the Copan Valley, they said that their crop was getting worse every year, and the Mayans would really have been hit hard because they didn't have the modern day materials that the farmers can use today.

-The images wouldn't load, it only showed the URL for them in words, so here are the links

http://cropdisease.cropsci.uiuc.edu/corn/images/28LARGEDipcrnerrot017%20copy.jpg

http://www.mexira.com/images/yucatan_map.jpg

http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/images/ipm1001art51.jpg

http://www.treehugger.com/jesus-leon-santos-mixteca.jpg

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

MY TRIP THROUGH PERUVIAN CULTURES!!!


I JUST TOOK AN AWESOME VACATION!!! I traveled through time to the Ancient Peruvian Civilizations!!! Actually it was just the Moche, Sican, Chimu, and Inca cultures but that's ok.
First I visited the Moche, which live around here. They had a bunch of pottery which looked really
cool particularly like in the shape of people. They gave me this one to take back so I was really happy.