https://www.jtalbot.com/tags/ball-court/ Recent content in Ball Court on jtalbot/blog Hugo en-US Copyright 2005-2026 jtalbot - CC BY-SA 4.0 Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/mixco-viejo-jilotepeque-viejo/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 22:30:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/mixco-viejo-jilotepeque-viejo/ <p>Sometime around 1450, the Chajoma Maya moved their capital to Jilotepeque Viejo in order to make it inaccessible to their hostile neighbors. The city itself had been built a few hundred years earlier and they hoped moving their capital here would help them keep their warring neighbors out. It didn&rsquo;t work. They were captured and ruled by the Kaqchikel Maya and eventually removed from the site shortly after the Spanish conquest of 1524. The site was never used again.</p>