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 The collapse magnitude.

This cultural collapse was a surprising event and of large proportions, as it unfolded in a single generation throughout Cem Anahuac. If we take Monte Alban, in the Oaxaca valleys as reference, it can be said that the Zapotec began its construction in the year 500 BCE, and that it was abandoned around the year 850 CE. One thousand three hundred and fifty years of incredible and titanic work to carve mountain tops, a spiritual testimony of the Supreme aspiration of the Zapotec people.

Generations and generations of Zapotecs worked tirelessly on the same project. They hand leveled the foot of a mountain, carried millions of tons of rock from distant places and gradually built this Spirit prodigy. No doubt this was an amazing project, because of its scale and longevity. However, its destruction is even more incredible and amazing, because in just one generation every building was destroyed to their bases, in some cases burnt. Then they were completely buried under dirt, which implies the need for a very important reason and the enormous amount of work during a single generation, especially while we know that they did not use hard metals hard, explosives, animals of burden and did not use the wheel.

The collapse of the Anahuac civilization represents a great mystery, not only for Mexicans, but for mankind. What were the reasons for this unusual event? Also something very intriguing, why did these people vanish from the face of Earth after building numerous centers of knowledge? Where did they go? Why did they do it? How did they do it? Questions that will have to be answered in order to fully comprehend the present of Mexicans and also help build the future.

Generally the collapses of other civilizations have shown that this resulted from a series of factors that contributed to the collapse of a civilization model. In the case of the Anahuac civilization it is still a mystery that not has been deeply researched, especially when it occurred as a "concerted action" in