The Maya Collapse Was Blamed on Drought. The Full Story Is More Complicated
Hooke
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October 19, 2026
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octaane
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mc32
"Even if the droughts had not been evenly distributed across Mesoamerica, the spared pockets would still have been vulnerable to their second-order effects — political instability, warfare, mass migration." We're seeing all these second order effects now.