Maya Sotuta Cocom (Kan Ek lineage) armed confrontation (1490s)

Timeline

1. 1441–1461Sotuta · Yucatán PeninsulaIn 1441 the Xiu leader Ah Xiu Xupan's uprising destroyed Mayapan and massacred the Cocom royal house; only one Cocom member away on a trading voyage escaped. After returning, the survivor rebuilt a domain at Sotuta, and the Cocom lineage (associated with the Kan Ek title tradition) became an important armed power in the eastern peninsula.
2. 1490–1500Eastern Yucatán Peninsula · Yucatán PeninsulaConflicts among the divided Yucatán polities were constant. The Cocom viewed the Xiu as regicidal traitors, while the Xiu called the Cocom tyrants; beyond political opposition, they embargoed each other's goods such as fish, salt, and game. In the 1490s armed confrontations and retaliatory raids between the Sotuta Cocom and Mani Xiu continued, forming one of the peninsula's principal feuds.
3. 1495–1500Yucatán Peninsula · Yucatán PeninsulaAccording to colonial-era ethnography such as Landa's, the Cocom–Xiu feud still profoundly shaped peninsula politics in the 1490s. The Cocom later became one of the most stubborn resisters of Spanish conquest (the 1542 Battle of Tihó, the 1546–1547 great uprising), and their 1490s armed confrontation tradition was part of this long line of resistance.