Yuknoom Ch'een II
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
The Kaanul kings ran the only thing in the Maya lowlands that looks like an empire, and they ran it by clients rather than by administration: install a king here, back a rebel there, marry a daughter into the third place, and hold the rivers. Yuknoom the Great is the height of it, fifty years of it, and the registry carried neither him nor the kingdom. The rivalry with Tikal that this record makes legible is the organising fact of two centuries of Maya politics, and until this batch the corpus had neither side of it.
Domains
- kingship
- conquest
- statecraft
Relations
- overlord of: B'alaj Chan K'awiilHe attacked Dos Pilas first and then backed it against Tikal, which is the whole Kaanul method in one relationship.Reference treatment of Yuknoom Ch'een II assaulting and then supporting the breakaway Tikal dynasty at Dos Pilas. (secondary)
Sources
- Yuknoom Ch'een II, Yuknoom the Great, is the Snake-dynasty ruler of Calakmul from 1 May 636 to 686, born 11 September 600, who conquered Tikal in 657, backed the Dos Pilas breakaway, installed client kings on the river routes, and was overking at Piedras Negras, Uxul, Zapote Bobal, La Corona and El Perú.: Reference treatments of Yuknoom Ch'een II and of the Kaanul hegemony. (secondary)