Base your answer to question 14 on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
… In the 193os, Sylvanus G. Morley of Harvard,
probably the most celebrated Mayanist of his day,
espoused [argued for] what is still the best-known
theory: The Maya collapsed because they
overshot the carrying capacity of their
environment. They exhausted their resource
base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and
fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent
warnings of the perils of ecological hubris
[overconfidence].…
— Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the
Americas Before Columbus
According to this passage, what was a major
question Morley was trying to answer about the
Mayas in the 193os?
(1) Why did the Mayas abandon their cities?
(2) What was the structure of the Maya
governments?
(3) How did religious beliefs affect the Maya
economy?
(4) Which neighboring city-state conquered the
Mayas?