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A full moon was shining
down on the jungle. Accompanied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer
and archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson—thirteen hundred years after the Mayas
had left their cities and made a break for the country farther north—was riding
through the New Empire that they had built for themselves, which had collapsed
after the arrival of the Spaniards. He was searching for Chichen Itza, the
largest, most beautiful, mightiest, and most splendid of all Mayan cities.
Horses and men had been suffering intense hardships on the trail. Thompson’s
head sagged on his breast from fatigue, and each time his horse stumbled be all
but fell out of the saddle. Suddenly his guide shouted to him. Thompson woke up
with a start. He looked ahead and saw a fairyland.
Above the
dark treetops rose a mound, height and steep, and on top of the mound was a
temple, bathed in cool moonlight. In the hush of the ni
A. had been abandoned by the Mayas about thirteen hundred years previously.
B. had been occupied and developed by the Mayas about thirteen hundred years before.
C. had been deserted by the Mayas as soon as the Spaniards arrived.
D. was conquered by the Mayas thirteen hundred years ago.