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1、MayaTo understand the ancient Mayan people who he t is today Mexico and Central America and the ecological difficulties they faced, one must considertheir environment,which wethink ofas “jungleor tropical rainforest.view is inaccurate, and the reason proves to MayaTo understand the ancient Mayan peo

2、ple who he t is today Mexico and Central America and the ecological difficulties they faced, one must considertheir environment,which wethink ofas “jungleor tropical rainforest.view is inaccurate, and the reason proves to be important. Properly speaking, rainforests grow in high-rainfall equatorial

3、t remain wet or humid all round. But the Maya s n dred kilometers from atitudes 17 to 22 degrees north, in a termed a “seasonal tis, while there does tendto bearainy season from May to October, is also a dry season fromJanuary throughApril. Ifone focuseson the wet months,one callstheMayahomelandasea

4、sonaltropicalforest;if onefocusesonthedrymonths,onecould instead describeit asaseasonal 须先研究他们的环境也就是今17-22 度之间，也就是通常所说的“林”4 月又是旱季。From north to he Yucatan Peninsula, where the Maya lived, rainfall from 18 to 100 inches (457 to 2,540 millimeters) per year, and the ethicker, t the southern peninsula w

5、as agriculturally more productive supported denser populations. But rainfall in the Maya homeland is n years; some recent years havehad threeor four times more other years. As a result, modern farmers attempting to grow he ancient homelands have faced frequent crop failures, lly in the north. The Ma

6、ya were presumably more experienced and did better, but nevertheless they vefaced risksofcropfailuresfrom droughtsand 从南向北的年降水量是从 18 英寸到 100 ，AlthoughsouthemMayaareasreceivedmorennorthern areas, problemswater were paradoxically more he wet south. t made things for ancient Maya living in the south, i

7、t has从南向北的年降水量是从 18 英寸到 100 ，AlthoughsouthemMayaareasreceivedmorennorthern areas, problemswater were paradoxically more he wet south. t made things for ancient Maya living in the south, it has also made things hard for archaeologists who have difficulty understanding why ancient droughts caused he w

8、et he dry north. The likely explanation t an of underground freshwater s the Yucatan Peninsula, but surface increases from north to south, t as one moves south the land increasingly higher above the water he northern peninsula the elevation sufficiently lowt the ancient Maya were able to reach the w

9、ater table at deep sinkholes called cenotes, or at deep caves. In low-elevation north coastal without sinkholes, the Maya would have been able to get down to the water ydigging wells up to 75 feet (22 meters) deep. But much of the s too above the water table for cenotes or wells to reach down to it.

10、 Making matters mostoftheYucatanPeninsulaconsistsofkarst,aporoussponge-likelimestonewhere rain runs o the ground and where little or no surface water 的要低于古玛雅人能挖到的含水层含 尺（22 米）How did those dense southern Maya populations deal with the resulting problem? It initially surprises t many of their cities w

11、ere not built How did those dense southern Maya populations deal with the resulting problem? It initially surprises t many of their cities were not built next to rivers but instead on high terrain in rolling uplands. The explanation t the excavated s, or modified natural s, and then plugged up leaks

12、 s in order to create the karst by plastering the bottoms of the which collected rain from large plastered ent basins and stored it for dry season.For le, reservoirs at the Maya city of Tikal held enough water meet the drinking water needs of about 10,000 people riod of 18 months. the city of Coba the Maya ikesaround a lake in orderto raise itslevel and their water supply more reliable. But the inhabitants of Tikal and other dependent on reservoirs for drinking water would still have been in deep trouble if 18 months passed