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brenden2014

Mayan Civilization, Ruins and Culture in Central America - 0 views

  • Mayan Medicine Mayan culture made adept use of the natural environment in Central America to maintain health and treat illnesses.  Traditional Mayan medicine is said to employ native plants to treat malaria and manage diabetes, among many other uses.
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    Mayan Medicine Mayan culture made adept use of the natural environment in Central America to maintain health and treat illnesses.  Traditional Mayan medicine is said to employ native plants to treat malaria and manage diabetes, among many other uses.
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brenden2014

Mayan Decline :: The Mayan Kingdom - 0 views

  • The causes for the Maya's decline are numerous, but one of the central causes is that the demands they placed upon their environment grew beyond the capacity of the land. At it's peak, there were about 15 million people occupying the Mayan world. Over-population of Mayan metropolises are suspected to have gone beyond levels that the Mayan political and social networks were able to support, resulting in social unrest and revolution. Frequent skirmishes by warring clans, such as the Toltec invasion of Chichen Itza, are suspected to have forced the Mayan populace to flee their cities. Recent studies have discovered evidenc
  • of severe droughts, deforestation, and a decline in large game animals that began around 800 A.D., coinciding with a sharp drop in new construction. Human bones found from this time show signs of severe malnutrition, which would have been a driving factor behind raids. While Maya civilization did go through a brief renaissance after this period, ongoing environmental constraints played a large role in their eventual decline.
tklinkefus

What led to the Mayans collapse? | In a Realm of my Own - 0 views

  • Peregrinus maidis
  • The insect, Peregrinus maidis, is proposed to have been blown great distances and is known to wipe out entire crops (Brewbaker 1979). It is only deadly in places where maize is cultivated all year long. The spreading of the maize mosaic virus (MMV) can be noted by monumental date inscriptions from southern lowlands Mayan centres (Brewbaker 1979). The last inscribed date at the site known as Palenque comes in the year 799 while on the other hand; the final date at Piedras Negras comes in the year 795 A.D. (Brewbaker 1979).
  • In the humidity of tropical areas, the cultivation of maize is never free from pests and crop diseases. Pests include borers, worms of all natures and the weevils who harm stored grains (Brewbaker 1979). On the other hand, viruses and diseases that negatively affect the harvest include rusts, blights, stalk and ear rots and downy mildews (Brewbaker 1979).
mboardman

4 Possible Reasons For The Collapse of the Mayan Civilization - 0 views

  • Most recently, scientists have turned their work towards the possibility of disease. The climate was humid and would have supported a host of parasitic activity. As the Mayan civilization grew and spread, disturbances would have occurred which could have placed the people in contact with parasites that would promote disease and death. If this were the case no member of the Mayans would have been spared. As with many diseases that attacked the human body, death can be a slow process dependent upon the strength and health of the individual attacked.
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kastgre19

Mayan information - 0 views

  • bubonic plague
  • a combination of both malaria and yellow fever epidemics
  • both of these epidemics are foreign to the Mayan culture
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  • the development of chronic warfare caused a breakdown in their fragile agriculture system. Imagine you were a farmer at the city-state of Uaxactun and you are at war with Tikal. Now, are you going to stay on your farm with no military protection? Of course not, you will move as fast as you can into the protection of the city walls. In the meantime your field becomes overgrown and no food can be produced. So we see cases of extreme food shortages that cannot be compensated for causing the demise of the Mayan culture.
brenden2014

Population, Environment and the Fall of the Mayan Civilization, A Lesson for ... - 0 views

  • r, appears to indicate that the health, nutrition and overall life-style was, in some respects, better than that of the people living there today.
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briantrevino

Health Issues - Ancient Maya - 0 views

  • The Maya thought that being sick was a punishment for a mistake or transgression.
  • Abdominal Pain
  • . Medicine Men relied a lot on what colour the plant was for what it was going to be able to cure e.g. Red leaves and plants for problems categorized with blood.
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  • ; Asthma; Colds; Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Diseases
  • of Women;
  • Bowel Complaints
  • Hair and Disease of the
  • Chills and Fever;
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • Vertigo
  • Insomnia; Dislocations and Complaints of the Bones;
  • ; Fainting and Unconsciousness
  • Depression,
  • Scalp;
  • Insanity;
  • Poisoning
  • Skin Diseases,
  • Cancer and Tumour's;
  • Sunstroke
  • Ruptures.
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • The Maya thought that being sick was a punishment for a mistake or transgression.
  • Medicine Men relied a lot on what colour the plant was for what it was going to be able to cure e.g. Red leaves and plants for problems categorized with blood
  • The average life expectancy for a Mayan man was between 50-55 and for Women was between 55-60. These are almost all of the health problems the Maya had :
  • Aches and Pains
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  • Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Skin Disease
  • Headache; Hiccough; Inflammation
  • yellow fever.
  • sic way of purification was the sweat bath.
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  • Jaundice;
  • Sweating; Teeth and Gums; Urine (bladder problems); Wounds, Cuts, Bruises, and
  • The Maya related sickness with being possessed of their soul by supernatural beings.
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
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    The main health problem that the Maya's had was the "Yellow Fever"
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    The Maya related sickness with being possessed of their soul by supernatural beings.  
brenden2014

Maya Medicine - 0 views

  • Three clinical diseases, pinta, leishmaniasis, and yellow fever, and several psychiatric syndromes were described, Athletes' foot and diarrhea were very common and fast cured with herbal medicine.
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  • The ancient Maya  perceived health as “balance”, whereas illness and disease were “imbalance”. Balance, however, was influenced by season and varied by age, gender, personality and exposure to environmental temperature extremes. A central medical-related theme held that balance was effected favorably or adversely by diet.
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  • Three clinical diseases, pinta, leishmaniasis, and yellow fever, and several psychiatric syndromes were described, Athletes' foot and diarrhea were very common and fast cured with herbal medicin
  • The Mayan culture also was preoccupied with science, art, government, marketing, philosophy, letters and health.
  • cities or the rituals of blood sacrifice by the leader/kings or priesthood.
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brenden2014

USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences > Blog - 0 views

  • A hemorrhagic fever, which was called Cocoliztli,
  • Two epidemics of Cocoliztli, occurring in 1545 and 1576 respectively, killed a total of 13 million people.
  • Symptoms ranged from headache and fever to dementia, nodule formation, and bleeding from all orifices before eventual death. Interestingly, the more severe symptoms of Cocoliztli only affected the native inhabitants of Mesoamerica;
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  • here is no evidence supporting any single explanation for this dramatic population loss. The severe decrease may have been caused by decline in agriculture, social or political issues, or natural causes such as drought to name a few. Whatever the cause, it is certain that the Maya civilization had collapsed.
  • While there are obvious differences between the collapses during the Terminal Classic Period and the sixteenth century, both occurred during similar environmental conditions. Evidence indicates that during the years before both population declines, the region was facing a period of severe drought. As indicated by data from tree rings, a long drought happened from AD 700 to AD 900 that stretched as far north as the Southwestern United States
  • A hemorrhagic fever, which was called Cocoliztli,
  • Two epidemics of Cocoliztli, occurring in 1545 and 1576 respectively, killed a total of 13 million people.
  • Cocoliztli outbreaks
  • As is widely known, the Mayan people saw a significant loss in population starting around AD 770. There is no conclusive evidence indicating one specific cause of this collapse; most
  • likely, it was a combination of several contributing factors. Centuries later, Mesoamerica faced another widespread population decline in the 1500s. Again, it is nearly impossible t
  • pinpoint what caused this occurrence. The data indicate that disease may have been a causative factor in the Maya collapse, though the identity of the disease itself is a mystery
  • due to the lack of preserved human remains.
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    Tells about a fever that caused many deaths. 
brucjac

The Mayans - 0 views

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Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

  • . The Aztec had a well established birth sign structure, much like modern astrology. Babies born during certain days were expected to develop into sickly children and die early of disease.
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brenden2014

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

  • The Mexica people were neurotic.
  • Depression
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