Flourishing of Chichen Itza

Name: Flourishing of Chichen Itza
Start: 900
End: 1200

Type Event Region Yucatan Time c. 900–1200

Around the 10th-11th centuries CE, Chichen Itza became one of the Yucatan's foremost Maya city-states, famed for the Kukulcan pyramid, the Great Ball…

Timeline

1003–1100Chichen Itza · Yucatan StateChichen Itza expanded its ceremonial center, built the Kukulcan pyramid, and through conquest and marriage alliances controlled neighboring city-states, becoming the political core of the northern peninsula.
c. 1000–1200Chichen Itza trade route node · Yucatan StateThe city-state linked Caribbean coastal and inland trade in salt, jade, and cacao; Toltec-style feathered serpent columns stood alongside Maya inscriptions, embodying Postclassic cross-cultural fusion.

Sources

Chichén Itzá — Cynthia Kristan-Graham (2015)
Chichén Itzá https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/483/