One by one, the Classic cities in the southern lowlands were abandoned, and by A.D. 900, Maya civilization in that region had collapsed. The reason for this mysterious decline is unknown, though scholars have developed several competing theories. which is Maya had exhausted the environment around them to the point that it could no longer sustain a very large population. <span>Other Maya scholars argue that constant warfare among competing city-states led the complicated military, family (by marriage) and trade alliances between them to break down, along with the traditional system of dynastic power. As the stature of the holy lords diminished, their complex traditions of rituals and ceremonies dissolved into chaos. Finally, some catastrophic environmental change–like an extremely long, intense period of drought–may have wiped out the Classic Maya civilization. Drought would have hit cities like Tikal–where rainwater was necessary for drinking as well as for crop irrigation–especially hard</span>
<span>At one time all these things were important to me. But because of Christ, I decided that they are worth nothing. ERV Easy-to-Read-Version
When you are not a Christian, you have all these worries and fears that you have to take care of. But because you can believe in GOd, he can take care of all your problems. :)
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D. Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half-child.
Explanation:
- Poem was written in 1899, at a time when Philippines were fighting for independence from the United States of America.
- Kipling clearly liked the idea of enslaving the people of one Asian country on the other side of the world. The White Man's Burden was written with the sole intention of persuading Americans not to give freedom to the Philippines.
- Poem is, by modern standards, extremely offensive. The author calls the population of another race your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half-devil and half-child.
- He criticizes them for not accepting white people as better than themselves and those who brought them to the light of day by colonization.
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