■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading
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There is ample support for the author’s claim that three theories can explain why the Maya Empire collapsed. However, in the lecture, the professor gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author’s point.
First, the professor contends that archaeologists failed to figure out what happened in Maya society. To be specific, there is no historical record of revolts even though there was a sophisticated writing system in the Maya Empire. Moreover, Maya society was decentralized and each state had a government and ruler in which there was a government and ruler in each state. Even though there was a revolution in a state, there is low possibility that a revolt was spread to near states. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim that destruction of buildings in Maya society indicates that there was a revolt.
Next, the professor insists that it is implausible that people left their cities. To explain, it is true that Teotihuacan played a key role in trade in May society, but its importance already had declined was decreased before the collapse of the Maya Empire. Teotihuacan already abandoned 1000 years prior to the collapse of the Empire. This counters the reading passage’s assertion that people had no option to abandon the city because the destruction of Teotihuacan which was a trade hub., the trade hub of the Mayan society.
Finally, the professor argues that diseases can not explicate why the Empire collapsed. Before European conquerors arrived in the region, Mayan had never been exposed to the disease such as yellow fever and malaria. Besides, if there had been was such epidemic, there should have been massive graves which indicate that a lot of people died at that time. This refutes the reading passage’s suggestion that Mayan people were susceptible to the pandemic because they lived in the area densely and the climate was suitable for parasites to spread.
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