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Name: Kowoj State

Type: Polity

Start: 1442 AD

End: 1697 AD

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Was a Maya polity, from the Late Postclassic period.

Establishment


  • January 1442: The Kowoj were a Maya group who claimed to have migrated from Mayapan, a major city in the Yucatan Peninsula, after its collapse in 1441 AD. They established their own state in the region known as Kowoj State.
  • Chronology


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    1. Spanish wars of colonization in the Americas


    Were a series of expeditions and military campaigns by Spanish conquistadores and discoverers to conquer territories in central and southern America.

    1.1.Spanish conquest of Guatemala

    Was a protracted conflict where Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.

  • March 1697: Nojpetén surrendered to the Spanish after a fierce battle.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1698: The Ko'woj and the Itzá were the last cultures to be conquered in Mesoamerica.
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