history classes over condense and skip so much, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes because history is uncomfortable and sometimes because history in a twist, is changing!

i like the reframing from how did the maya collapse to how did they survive for so long. we know how things collapse. fast or slow. but how things survive, now that is a story worth discovering.

it was difficult to read about how the mayans continue to have been persecuted even to this day. in some ways, the article's headline was about history but the article content seemed to actually be about how that history has played a role in the persecution of mayans today...