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Satellite view of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Maya civilization occupied the Maya Region, a wide territory that included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America; this area included the entire Yucatán Peninsula, and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. [4]
Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztecs, travelled across Petén in the early 16th century. In 1525, after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés led an expedition to Honduras over land, cutting across the Itza kingdom in what is now the northern Petén Department of Guatemala. [ 180 ]
Shortly afterwards, the Spanish were invited as allies into Iximche, the capital city of the Kaqchikel Maya. [82] Good relations did not last, due to excessive Spanish demands for gold as tribute, and the city was abandoned a few months later. [83] This was followed by the fall of Zaculeu, the Mam Maya capital, in 1525. [84]
The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.
The city was finally razed when it was conquered in 1697. ... Postclassic City in the Maya Highlands of Guatemala] ... Guatemala City, Guatemala: Museo Nacional de ...
Nakbe in the Petén Department of Guatemala is the earliest well-documented city in the Maya lowlands, [15] where large structures have been dated to around 750 BC. [13] Nakbe already featured the monumental masonry architecture, sculpted monuments and causeways that characterised later cities in the Maya lowlands. [ 15 ]
Tikal (/ tiˈkɑːl /; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, [2] found in a rainforest in Guatemala. [3] It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archeological region of the Petén ...
Kaminaljuyu (pronounced / k æ m i n æ l ˈ h uː j uː /; from Kʼicheʼʼ, "The Hill of the Dead" [1]) is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in Guatemala City. Primarily occupied from 1500 BC to 1200 AD, [ 2 ] it has been described as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the New World [ 3 ] —although the extant ...