Drought, Disease, Social Turmoil, Foreign Invasion

The Mayan civilization was a very prosperous one. Their population was in the millions, and they had invented so many ‘life simplifying’ tools. The Mayans were around for almost 4000 years, and in that time, much was done. By the end of their time, they were facing a serious drought, new diseases, social turmoil, and foreign invasions. They were a strong civilization, but when all four of those terrible thing occurred at once, they didn’t stand a chance. The Mayan civilization faced its fall in the 1400’s.
Drought was a major problem that had a big affect on the fall of the Mayans. Droughts are a natural disaster when it does not rain, for months, even years. The drought during this time lasted for nearly 10 years, and the Mayans were getting weaker and weaker. At least they had the river water, but that would not last forever with no rain to fill them. The Mayans had huge, underground, marble caverns which were used as wells to store water. Now these wells were behemoth. With the drought, the Mayan people were getting weaker. It was always a difficult to find a drink, and lots died from thirst. The drought also brought something fierce on the people.
Disease was a problem as well. Though disease was always there, the drought made the people more effectible. Since the people bodies were getting weaker, they could not always fight off the deadly diseases. Disease was a cause of death all across the Mayan kingdom. Diseases such as Small Pox were a big surprise to the people of the Mayan civilization. Most of the diseases being spread around were lethal, although, some took a while to kill you. The Mayan people faced great loss due to sickness and disease, especially at this time, when all else was going wrong as well.
The Mayan civilization had social turmoil. The people were arguing and fighting. With this going on, nothing was getting done, or getting done right. Some members of the government opposed the others. Everything was falling down around them. Also, the Mayan leader, trying to please the Gods to end the drought, started sacrifices his own people. Send warriors out to capture entire villages, and bring them back to the main city to be killed in frond off the people. Many Mayans were killed this way, and by the hand of another Mayan. They were performing human sacrifices to end a drought same save the peoples lives, but, to do so, they killed many people.
With the Revolution, Disease, and Drought, the Spaniards were able to come in and conquer, wipe out, the entire civilization in 10 years. The Spanish came with maybe 1000 soldiers, well armed with steel weapons, and they killed over 1 million Mayan. This is because of the other factors of how their civilization fell. The Spanish came at the worst possible time, while the Mayans were at their weakest. They stood no chance against the foreign invaders.
The Mayan civilization was over long before it was gone. The drought and disease made the people weak and unable to defend, or fend, for themselves. Social turmoil meant that the Society was in extreme confusion and disorder. The Mayan people were as good as dead before they actually were. Then, when the Spanish came, they were just finished. If the Mayans only problem was the invasion of the Spanish, there would be millions more of them alive today. But that was not the case. Many died from the thirst and disease before the Spaniards arrived. Social turmoil can be overcome and fixed. They had no control over the drought or diseases. That is how I believe their collapse came to be.