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The Maya Collapse Was Blamed on Drought. The Full Story Is More Complicated

12 points • by Hooke • yesterday at 9:31 PM • 3 comments • view on HN

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mc32 • today at 12:46 AM

"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.

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ksudb • today at 1:04 AM

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