Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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It's all usually suspects.
It's usually like, oh, there's some pressure from outside.
There's some internal revolt.
There's environmental problems, you know, population pressure.
All those things are happening to Teotihuacan towards the end.
But we don't have a good handle on what happens to them.
So the most impressive for Mesoamerica, I would say, would probably be that.
For the Maya area...
I love Tikal temple one.
Um, I've always loved Tikal temple one.
It's the iconic Maya pyramid for, for the classic period.
Um, it's, it's super tall, right?
Um, it's not nearly as big as this, but, uh, it, it's, uh, it's a wonderful, it's, it's, it's a wonderful pyramid.
Uh, you're not allowed to go up it.
Uh, you know, you, people used to be able to go up to this, up this thing and the tourists kept dying.
The tourists kept falling off the thing.