The Collapse Of The Mayans: Yucatan Peninsula In Guatemala

The Mayans were an empire that was mostly made of forests and reached from the Yucatan Peninsula in South modern-day Mexico to modern-day Guatemala. The main obstacle for this empire was the forest, which took up most of the possible farmland. Trees got in the way of the sun, and took much of the nutrients and water in the soil. They also took up space that could be used for more crops. To solve this problem, the Mayans used a farming method called slash-and-burn. They cut down the trees, burned them, and the nutrients that the tree had would go in the soil in the form of ashes. One complication of this was the fact that, if someone burns the ground, it will be scorched and dry. This led to the use of sinkholes, or large depressions in the