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Published online 3 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070101-2
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Did worldwide drought wipe out ancient cultures?
Monsoon records link demise of the Tang in China and Maya in Mexico.
They lived in resplendence, half a world apart, before meeting their respective downfalls within decades of one another. Now a new theory suggests that the decline of the Tang Dynasty in China and that of the Mayan civilization in Mexico may both have been due to the same worldwide drought.
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