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The Mayan [12] [13] and Aztec [14] civilizations both practiced slavery. Warfare was important to Maya society, because raids on surrounding areas provided the victims required for human sacrifice, as well as slaves for the construction of temples. [15] Among the Maya, slavery was inherited, unless a ransom was paid. [16]
Guerrero and his nine surviving crew-mates were immediately apprehended by the Mayan militia of Waymil upon their landing. [4] [5] Some were ritually sacrificed, and the survivors were forced into slavery under various provincial aristocrats. [4] [5] [note 3]
In the Postclassic, the Maya engaged in a flourishing slave trade with wider Mesoamerica. [163] The Maya engaged in long-distance trade across the Maya region, and across greater Mesoamerica and beyond. As an illustration, an Early Classic Maya merchant quarter has been identified at the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan, in central Mexico. [164]
The identification of a long-sunken Mayan slave ship is providing an extraordinary history lesson to researchers and archaeologists alike. Excavators in Mexico have confirmed that a shipwreck ...
The identification of a long-sunken Mayan slave ship is providing an extraordinary history lesson to researchers and archaeologists alike. Excavators in Mexico have confirmed that a shipwreck ...
The Maya (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) are an ... The Mopan (indigenous to Belize but were forced out by the British; they returned from Guatemala to evade slavery in the 19th ...
A Classic period Maya polity was a small kingdom (ajawil, ajawlel, ajawlil) headed by a hereditary ruler – ajaw, later kʼuhul ajaw. [5] Both terms appear in early Colonial texts including Papeles de Paxbolón [6] where they are used as synonyms for Aztec and Spanish terms for rulers and their domains.
The Maya community makes up 51% of the population of Guatemala. Although a few dozen cultural groups inhabited the area, they were considered one Maya culture under the Spanish Empire. Under colonial Spanish rule, the Maya people were forced to leave their homelands, work as slaves for the Spanish colonists, and convert to Christianity. [1]