1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey y'all, I'm Eves. Welcome to This Day 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: in History Class, a show where we one day ship 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: nuggets of history straight to your brain through your ear hole. 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: Today is March. The day was March No Baton, the 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: capital of the Mayan kingdom of petin Izza, failed to 7 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: Spanish troops. The city, which was located in present day Guatemala, 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: was the last center of Maya resistance. The Maya peoples 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: are a group of indigenous Messo Americans whose history dates 10 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: to before two thousand b C. They were centered in 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: the Yucatan Peninsula and modern day Guatemala and Belize, as 12 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: well as parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador. The 13 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: Maya other southern lowland region reached their peak during the 14 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: Classic period, which began around two fift The population size 15 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: was large, cities flourished, and historic monuments were built. The 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: Maya also fostered great cultural development, creating writing and calendar 17 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: systems and building trade networks. They made advances in math 18 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: and astronomy, and are credited with some of the earliest 19 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: pieces of rubber and chocolate. Their society consisted of a 20 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: bunch of independent states, but by nine CE, Mayan cities 21 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: and southern Lowlands were abandoned and the civilization in that 22 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: area had collapsed. Though the reasons for this collapse aren't 23 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: completely clear. It could have been due to the degradation 24 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: of the environment or conflicts between competing city states. But 25 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: even after this collapse, Mayan cities in the northern Lowlands 26 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: area still flourished in the Maya established cities in the 27 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: Highlands region. The meso American people known as the Issa 28 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: lived in the Yucatan Pan Sila in the post Classic period, 29 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: which lasted from around nine hundred to fifteen hundred c E. 30 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: They were descended from a Mya lineage. In the fourteen hundreds, 31 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: the Izsa abandoned Mayapan, the capital of Yucatan. Yucatan then 32 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: transformed from a single kingdom into many rival states. In 33 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: the early fifteen hundreds, as the Spanish began colonizing, the 34 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: America's indigenous populations were decimated due to war and foreign 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: diseases that the Spanish brought with them. The Izza had 36 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: established power and patent. Their capital was no Patent, which 37 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: was on an island in Lake petin Itza in modern 38 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: day northern Guatemala, but during a colonial period, the population 39 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: in the area began to decline. In the fifteen twenties, 40 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: Spanish invader or non Cortez passed through Britain and came 41 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: in contact with the Izza. Patan remained politically independent from 42 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: the Spanish for a while after they began their conquest 43 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: on the continent. The Spanish launched several assaults against the Issa, 44 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: and a Maya group known as a Kosh also went 45 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: up against the Etsa for control of the Patin Lakes region. 46 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: So the Etsa were successful in their resistance to Spanish 47 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: rule until the late seventeenth century. No Paton fell in 48 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: sixteen ninety seven. On March thirteenth, Spanish troops from Yucatan, 49 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: led by Martin de Ursua, attacked and occupied No patent 50 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: This made No Patain the last independent Maya city to 51 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: fall into the Spanish, so Spanish rule greatly affected Mayan culture. 52 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: Some Mayan villages persisted independent of Spanish authority. The island 53 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: that was home to the city of No Patin is 54 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: now home to the town of Flores. I'm each stuff coote, 55 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: and hopefully you know a little more about history today 56 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: than you did yesterday. If you have any insight on 57 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: an accident or a pronunciation spoken in the show today, 58 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: you can feel free to send us a kind note 59 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: on social media you at t d I h C 60 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: Podcast and you can send your thoughts are comments to 61 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: us at This Day at i heart media dot com. 62 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed today's episode. 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