Costa Palma

Costa Palma, (Spanish Costa Palma) officially the People's Republic of Costa Palma. (Spanish: República Popular de Costa Palma) is a tropical communist island state in the Caribbean sea. It is about 210 km from the coast of Belize, and 156 km from the coast of Honduras. It has 6 states: Mopan, Quinta Moro, Garilla, Yacumbres, and the northern and southern Chac Mool Jungle. The state with the biggest population is Yacumbres, the state with the less population is the Northern Chac Mool Jungle. It counts only 1.389 inhabitants. Its neighbors are Honduras to the south, Guatemala, Belize Mexico to the west, the Cayman Islands to the East, and Cuba to the north. Costa Palma's capital is Los Santos, also the largest city on the island. Los Santos counts more then 4 million inhabitants. Its seat of government is in the capital Los Santos. the nation its economy started growing after a giant typhoon hit the island. The nation has a lot of long history. The Mayans were the first people who ever set a foot on the island.

Classic Maya period
The Mayans who came from the West were the first people who set foot on the Island. They don't exactly know when they came on the island but the first Maya civilization was probably founded in like 1000 A.D during the Preclassic period. in 300 A.D the Classic Mayan period begun. Here the first big Mayan cities were build, and the Mayan area was at its largest. The Mesoamerican civilization got in their Golden Age. While in Europe the city of Rome was looted by the Barbarians, and got into its Dark Ages. The Mayas who developed themselves to great astronomers, started constructing temples and observatories. Even palaces with sometimes more then 200 rooms. The temples of the Mayans were lifted because they believed that you would be closer to the gods if you were higher off the ground. It was usual that they expanded their temples, they ruined the old ones and constructed a bigger one over it. They used to think that the Maya People were a peaceful society. Only busy with themselves and observing the planets and stars. But it turned out that they weren't that peaceful as they thought they were. for example: They had a lot of human sacrifice, they believed that the gods had to be kept alive and it was the responsibility of human kind. There were fights and conflicts all the time, but because of religious reasons. When the planet Venus appeared at the morning sky, this was a sign from the gods that it was time for war. The Mayan People in Costa Palma called themselves the Xtulu peoples. Between 800 and 900 A.D the major cities in the southern Maya region all fell into decline and were mostly or completely abandoned. The postclassic period had begun, just when Europe slowly got out of its Dark Ages. In Costa Palma this didn't had a large effect for the cities, because it was an island and only had a little contact with the Mayas at the Yucatan Peninsula. But not long after this happened, also in Costa Palma the classical period came to an end. In this Postclassical period, Costa Palma was all conquered by king Tukal K'inich Pakun' and was the only one who knew how to conquer the whole island. In the beginning the battles with other Maya cities were only for religious reasons, but after the Classical period most battles were meant for power. It happened often that as soon if enemy troops got into the city they took all men and sacrificed them to the gods. Tulenqua, the city of Tukal K'inich Pakun' became a destination for refrugees from other cities all over the island. The city grew bigger and became the most powerful city in Costa Palma. The Dark Ages in Central America had began, and Tukal K'inich Pakun' started expanding his kingdom. Only 3 Mayan cities in Costa Palma remained. These were: Tulenqua, Zotec and Chichumal, all under Tukal K'inich Pakun'. Costa Palma its population fell from more then 500.000, to only 20.000.

Spanish Conquest
When the Spanish first arrived in the early 16th century, they brought diseases that were unknown by the Mayans. A lot of them died by these diseases. Tulenqua was first conquered in 1527. it didn't take long before the cities Costa de los Mayas was founded. Soon all treasure from the temples and palaces in Tulenqua got destroyed or got shipped to Spain. Catholic priests from Europe came to look for new souls. Without any eye for the beauty for the Mayan alphabet and culture. They said the books were messages from the devil and burned them all. Only 3 out of all Mayan books remained. All books from Costa Palma got destroyed. Soon after Tulenqua was conquered, Los Santos was founded as a base to control the inner lands, and soon the Mayan city of Chichumal got conquered. A lot of Mopan people from Belize and Guatemala fled to the Mayan city Zotec in Costa Palma. But also this city got conquered by the Spanish in 1546. This was the end of the Mayan civilization in Costa Palma. The Spanish build another city at the same location as Zotec, Today we know it as Ciudad de Zotec. Iglesia de San Francisco in Zotec is build out of stones from one of the temples of Zotec. The only thing that remains from this temple are the foundations, but its for a part buried under a residential neighborhood.