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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    The remains of the Nakbé palace from the mid-Preclassic period, Mirador Basin, Petén, Guatemala. The earliest human settlements in Guatemala date back to the Paleo-Indian period and were inhabited by hunters and gatherers. [1] [page needed] Sites from around 6500 BC have been discovered in the Quiché department in the Highlands, as well as in Sipacate and Escuintla on the central Pacific coast.
  2. britannica.com

    The ancient Maya were one of the most highly developed peoples of precolonial America, boasting a sophisticated calendar, astronomic observatories, and construction skills. During the Classic Period, dating from 300 to 900 ce, the Maya built the majority of their cities.The causes of the sudden abandonment of many Mayan cities starting about 850 ce are still being debated, but a combination of ...
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    The region during the colonial period was known as Capitanía General de Guatemala—the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was a part of New Spain (present-day Mexico and Central America). "The Spanish capital in Guatemala was Central America's major hub of commerce, transit, in-migration, and hispanization, starting in the sixteenth ...
  5. worldofhistorycheatsheet.com

    Jul 8, 2024The history of Guatemala is a complex and fascinating story that spans from ancient Mayan civilization through Spanish colonization to modern-day political and social challenges.. Ancient Maya Civilization Early Inhabitants: The region now known as Guatemala was home to some of the earliest human settlements in the Americas, dating back to at least 18,000 BCE.
  6. ghrc-usa.org

    Guatemala Human Rights Commission/ USA

    https://ghrc-usa.org › AboutGuatemala › History.htm

    Timeline: Guatemala . A chronology of key events: 2000 BC- 250 AD: Mayan Preclassic Period 250 AD- 900 AD: Mayan Classic Period during which many Maya cities reached their historically recognized height of making great contributions to astrology, mathematics, writing, language, architecture, religion, and agriculture. 900 AD - 1523: Mayan Postclassic Period.
  7. britannica.com

    5 days agoGuatemala is bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize and (along a short coastline) by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean.. Relief. The surface of Guatemala is characterized by four major topographical features. Southern Guatemala is dominated by a string of 27 volcanoes extending for ...
  8. historyworld.net

    The arrangement survives until the end of the colonial period (except that the capital moves to Guatemala City after Antigua is destroyed by an earthquake in 1773), and it is this larger region of Guatemala which declares independence on 15 September 1821 - just three weeks after neighbouring Mexico, under Agustín de Iturbide, has won freedom ...
  9. oxfordbibliographies.com

    Introduction. The colonial period in Guatemalan history is customarily dated from 1524 to 1821. During that time, Guatemala was the most populous and most prosperous of the provinces that made up the kingdom, or audiencia, of Guatemala, a district that stretched from Chiapas in the west to Costa Rica in the east.The largest single element in the colonial population consisted of native Mayas ...
  10. centralamerica.com

    According to some archeologists, Guatemala has the oldest recorded human history in Central America, with some evidence of human existence going back to 18,000 BC. Whether or not people actually were in Guatemala that long ago is disputed. ... This arrangement worked well enough until the end of the colonial period when Guatemala began to grow ...

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  1. History of Guatemala

    The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization, with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned. The Maya states in the Belize central highlands continued to thrive until the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado—called "The Invader" by the Maya—arrived in 1525 and began to subdue the indigenous populations. For nearly 330 years, Guatemala was part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which included Chiapas and the present-day countries of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. The colony declared its independence on 15 September 1821 and briefly joined the First Mexican Empire in 1822. By 1824, Guatemala became a member of the Federal Republic of Central America, and upon the Republic's dissolution in 1841, it gained full independence. Wikipedia

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