The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.

— Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico (1993)

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