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?