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The Classic Maya cities emptied because people got sick of kings.

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  1. Ed Barnhart

    Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center

    But then we have the interesting case of in the Postclassic, they shed the idea of kings. They don’t like kings anymore. That’s probably a big part of why the Classic disappearance and the abandonment of all those cities happened. People just got sick of kings.

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