Thanks for the help webster but I'm not buying it........
There's too much historical fact proving that the Mayan cities that weren't wiped out by neighboring Mayans over the centuries died off from natural causes such as highly concentrated populations unsupported by the then existing farming abilities, thus leading to starvation.....
If the Mayans were wiped out by European diseases, why wasn't Europe before they all got their small pox and flu shots when they set sail for South America?
The Mayan culture was pretty much gone by the time the Conquistadors landed. In the Yucatan, the Toltecs had moved into the Mayan sites like Chichen Itza. The Aztecs, on the other hand, were decimated by smallpox, which the original Spanish histories confirm. Aztec tribute records indicate that they had 30 million people in their empire in 1518. A hundred years later, the Spaniards could only document 1.6 million.
Smallpox also spread to the Incas before the Spaniards got there. The Inca emperor died of it, triggering a war of succession. Pizarro, who had visited Peru just a few years earlier, was struck by the empty cities when he came back intent on conquest. From his translators he learned of the disease and war that had killed most of the population.