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Postclassic Maya Polity Politics

Type Event Region North America Time c. 1200–1400

By the late thirteenth century, Maya civilization was in its Postclassic period, with the Mayapan alliance as the hub of the Yucatán Peninsula and K'…

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  1. c. 1280–1290Mayapan · Yucatán StateMayapan was governed council-style by the Cocom family alongside leaders of other lineages, controlling the Yucatán Peninsula's salt industry and coastal trade, and became the core political hub of the northward-shifted Postclassic Maya.
  2. c. 1285–1300K'iche' homeland · Quiché DepartmentPolities such as K'iche' and Kaqchikel in the Guatemalan highlands consolidated rule through military expansion and the royal mythology recorded in the Popol Vuh, forming a north-south Postclassic Maya political landscape in correspondence with Mayapan in the Yucatán.

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