is first important to specify that the Maya culture did not collapse. In fact, it continued in the Post-Classic era and beyond in the northern lowlands. It was the system that they built that collapsed. That led to population shifts and the abandonment of city-states, especially in the southern lowland. The traditions continued, despite the centralized political and economic declines. He found that the general traits of Classic Maya political and economic systems greatly invested in massive rituals, discontinuous and unstable systems of alliance between polities, warfare that was usually for
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