Yik'in Chan K'awiil
Mayan ruler (ajaw) of the city-state polity centered at Tikal
700 CE to 766 CE
Yik'in Chan K'awiil (name may be glossed as "K'awiil that Darkens the Sky"; fl.
734 – c. 766) is a Mayan ruler (ajaw) in the Late Classic period of the city-state polity centered at Tikal, a major pre-Columbian Maya site in the Petén Basin region (modern-day Guatemala).
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Yik'in Chan K'awiil, ruler of the leading Maya city state of Tikal, conquers rival power ...
...Calakmul in 736.
Yik'in Chan K'awiil, identified by Mayanist epigraphers as the twenty-seventh ruler in Tikal's dynastic succession, is one of Tikal's most successful and expansionist rulers, consolidating the political gains won by his father, Jasaw Chan K'awiil I.
During his reign, prolific building works are undertaken at Tikal, with a number of the site's significant still-standing structures commissioned or extended under his direction.
He conquers two other Calakmul allies in 743 and 744: ...
...El Peru, sixty kilometers (thirty-seven miles) west of Tikal, and ...
...Naranjo to the south, thereby destroying the noose of power that had previously dominated the area.