What Caused the Maya Civilization to Fall

question 10

Multiple Choice

What caused the Maya civilization to fall?

• A) an epidemic of bubonic plague
• B) conquest by the Aztec people
• C) the violence and destruction of European colonizers
• D) 20 years of continual flooding ruining crops and shelter

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