Office by Alex Penny
21. Keyholder at LUSH . Anthropology. Umass Boston. Vegan. A boy living his life to the fullest. :) Names Justin. Come see life with me.
PLACE WORTH VISITING :Uxmal an ancient Mayan city in Mexico ,
I never posted it but my Maya professor emailed me and I got a 92 on the test she said.
I get to class today and she said she added a 5 point curve and I was like-
“Does that include what you emailed me, or added on top of that?”
And she said-
“No add it on top” (Thank you all the people who failed miserably haha)
I got a 97 then <3
AND
The field school application for Belize is finally available.
Great mix of events. :)
I am so excited, it’s starting to feel so real now :)
I got a document from my professor about Belize I can’t wait!
Needs to stop going around fucking Tumblr. It’s so annoying. I reiterate. The Maya collapse happened between 900-1100AD. The first Spanish settlers did not hit Mesoamerica until the 1400’s. Collapse- a term used when a civilization abandons there large and ceremonial centers. The thought behind the collapse is a mixture of factors, lying within the concepts of epidemiological factors, drought and not having enough nutrional support to sustain the population. It is thought that the Maya descended back into the forest and dispersed, and you still see many Mayan cultures active today throughout Mesoamerica.
The Maya collapse happened a couple centuries before the Spanish arrived. It was an occurrence of a strange nature, a collapse of civilization is termed usually with the abandonment of large and ceremonial settlements. The Maya picked up and left most of the sites, they also had some nutritional and small epidemiological issues that forced them to disperse and know one really has a clear answer why exactly they left. But safe to say the Spanish had 0% to do with it.
