what historical event really interests u

@windinhishair where was this

The Valley of Mexico, about 25 miles from Mexico City. With the fall of Teotihuacan for unknown reasons, Tikal became the largest Mayan city with an estimated 500,000 people.

Tha does sound interesting

@terribleperson Yes. I'd like to know why it happened and a large city was abandoned forever. It would be like us abandoning Chicago and everyone moving to Fargo, North Dakota, which becomes even bigger than Chicago.

I can think of plenty of reasons to abandoned Chicago now

@terribleperson Parts of it perhaps, but it is unusual when whole cities are completely abandoned at one point in time. Was it war? Famine? Superstition? Disease?

I guess we will never know. Probably really fun to think about

@terribleperson Mesoamerican history is very interesting, and not very well studied like the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, even though they were just as advanced scientifically.

Did they write as much?

@terribleperson Yes, using an alphabet of glyphs. It has only been 20-30 years that we've been able to read them. They had elaborate books on bark pounded thin into paper, called Codexes. There are only a handful that survived the Conquistadors, who burned all they could find en masse. The British Museum has a beautiful Codex on display, as does the museum in Berlin. With the glyphs, they kind of look like comic books! We can tie their calendar directly to ours, to the day. Today's date on the Mayan Calendar is 13.0.5.4.3