how drought destabilised the last major precolonial Mayan city
- Written by Stanley Serafin, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Bradley Russell, Author providedThe city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious centre, and the capital of a large state that controlled much of northwestern Yucatan in present day Mexico.
When the Spanish arrived in the early 1500s, Mayapán was...





