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Why did the Aztecs disappear?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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15y ago

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The Aztecs never fully disappeared though their numbers were significantly decimated. Modern day Mexicans have Aztec blood and there are over a million speakers of Nahuatl, the ancient language of the Aztecs.

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12y ago

No one knows. Many historians have theories, even some like aliens, but no proof has been found for any theory.

around ad 900 construction of buildings ceased abruptly lowland civilization of the maya collapsed possible causes war or disease but no one really knows where the maya really went

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14y ago

Short answer would be they were conquered by the Spanish in the late 17th century a conquest that took 170 years.

Now your question is rather vague where as im not sure if your referring to the classical collapse of the Maya or what ended the civilization.

Classical collapse... no one really knows, they went from prosperous to devistated civilization in a rather short amount of time. The current contending theories are, overpopulation, foreign invasion, peasant revolt, the collapse of key trade routes, environmental disaster, disease and climate change. In all probability the collapse was a cause of any number of these theories and none (standing alone) explain the collapse in its entirety with a significant probability, however a drought most certainly did take place during this time period.

Several hundred years after the collapse the Spanish eventually conquered the remaining Maya strongholds however this is a gross oversimplification.

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13y ago

They all died but some decendants are still living.

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12y ago

Well actually the Aztecs migrated from what is today Mississippi. But before that they actually migrated from somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean Sea which some say was the Carney Islands

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11y ago

where did the conquistadors go

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13y ago

The Mayans turned into Mexicans

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