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When Rain Stopped the Cities

When Rain Stopped the Cities

Por Morse, Fiona

Publicado por epubli

English 2026
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This book explores how the Maya world unraveled when drought, escalating warfare, and fractured city‑state politics converged to override the resilience of a once‑flourishing Classic‑period civilization. Rather than a sudden "vanishing," it traces a slow reconfiguration of power, settlement, and ritual authority as the celestial rhythms that once sustained divine kingship began to fail. Drought and climate stress appear as the first intensifying pressure: multi‑year dry spells, recorded in cave stalagmites and lake sediments, parched the rain‑fed farms and reservoirs on which large centers like Tikal depended, turning surplus into scarcity and undermining the cosmological contract between rulers and gods. Warfare and militarization mount as the second layer; archaeological evidence now shows that "total war" with high civilian casualties and city‑level destruction preceded the worst droughts, shattering supply lines and draining resources needed to sustain populations and elites. Third comes political fragmentation: the Maya were never a single empire but a mosaic of city‑states whose rivalries deepened as environmental stress and warfare eroded cooperative networks, leaving no unified response to crisis and accelerating the abandonment of core cities.

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When Rain Stopped the Cities está disponible como eBook en 6 librerías online. Entre las librerías que lo venden están Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Crisol Ebooks.

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