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Bit of a nitpick, but the 'New Mayan Empire' bit in the title of your latest update doesn't make much sense, seeing as there was never an 'old' Maya Empire to start with. Even more of a nitpick, the people are 'the Maya', their language is 'Mayan'.
The New Mayan Empire is that the Confederation is relatively new, not that its a revival of a old Empire.

1) Wait you form a confederation in 1 sentence

2) The Mayans wanting guns

3) The SPanish giving guns away

4) Spanish actually bothering to train the Mayans

5) I suggest you not use the word Mexico like that

6) For the guns to be that effective they need a lot which isn't happening. One of the bigger reasons the Spanish won was armor, guns weren't that effective.

7) THIS IS 1520 THERE ARE NO RIFLES

8) An Aztec not a Aztec

9) When a nation going a conquering you become wary not besties

10) Mayans can't use Spanish ships

11) Mayans aren't going to try and getting more favorable trade, and even if the Spanish would never give it

12) Oh yeah how with lots of Spanish traders and Spanish soldiers going to the Yucatan has smallpox not hit in full force

13) That 7 Noj part as ASB

14) The Aztecs were surprised that the Spanish coveted gold so much, so why would the Itza's covet gold

1)If you want to spread it out more I can

2)I am being told that the Natives wouldn't be as interested in guns then I thought so I will probably edit that out.

3)They are trading it for gold, coco, other valuable resources

4)Makes sense

5) Then what should I use?

6) While they are not as widespread there is quite a few.

7) I usually just pair muskets and rifles, I will stop if that is not right

8) I dont know what you mean

9) Again what? Its mostly wording on this one.

10) I dont see why not, they had ships of their own, just not huge ships

11) Well considering they could not conquer the gold, they would probably go to trade.

12) Again, point taken

13) Why? He was rule of the K'iche at the time.

14) its more of a bribe.
 
Certainly, there's some (less dramatic) precedent for larger Mayan states (Mayapan) and for incursions into the Mayan states from the Central Valley (Teotihuacan under Jatz'om Kuh), but both of those took much longer, and in a period when the population wasn't falling apart.
Speaking of which, apparently a stele was recently found in Naachtun and the translation suggests there was already some political infrastructure in place in the Peten supporting the Teotihuacanos. Obviously the Aztecs had nothing like that, their biggest trade center in the region was at Xicalango, a lagoon on the coast that I don't think they even owned, it was merely the place in the Yucatan with the largest Aztec presence.
 
The Aztecs saw this as a direct act of war and declared war on the Mayans. Most of the War was fought in the Ki'che and Mam territory with only small excursions from either side. Fighting was sporadic and many of the battles were relatively small. The battle that really defined the war was the Siege of Q'umarkaj. The war had entered the tail end of its 3rd year and the Mam had made a large push to finish the war. The Aztecs rushed south to counterattack but were surrounded in Q'umarkaj by a Mam/Mayan Army. The Aztecs managed to build crude barricades around the city, with some forced labor, and waited for the attack. The Mayans saw this and knew they would eventually starve, so they decided to wait it out and stockpile their resources should a attack come. The two sides sat on their respective sides of the wall for 2 months occasionally lobbing arrows at one another, but then the food ran out, Another day went by before the Aztecs were forced to attempt a breakout. Weakened by hunger and disease they were slaughtered by the Mayans, out of a 15000 strong army only around 350 survived to flee back into Aztec lands. As the Mayan force marched triumphantly into Q'umarkaj they were hit hard by a old friend, disease; Some of the Aztecs had Smallpox and infected the others around them turning the city into a graveyard faster than the starvation did. The Mayans quickly left the city and all infected behind them and continued forward on their campaign, little did they know they were still carrying the death of a nation.

Soon after the Siege the Mayans accepted peace from the Aztecs and it seemed the worst of it was over. After the victorious Mayans returned home and spread out across the Confederation people started getting deathly ill. The Mayans had already experienced this before in limited amounts along the Spanish trade rout but nothing like this, hundreds of thousands were getting sick and dying. The Mayans prayed to Ahau Chamahez, goddess of medicine and good health, to lift the plague but it only intensified. People began abandoning big cities in favor of smaller communities, the Emperor feared another collapse as all he worked for started to come undone. The plague died out in Early 1539 and the death toll was counted, final estimate was at almost 1 million killed and 30 thousand missing. The Emperor put his most trusted and experienced priests to work on finding a cure but they came up with nothing.

The Aztecs had experienced this before and had planned accordingly. So when Oaxaca started to report infections the Emperor ordered all the infected to be killed and their bodies burned. Because of this the Infection never spread into to many densely populated places and the death toll was unbelievably low, 30 dead. The Emperor also took an extra precaution to put the Spanish trading station in a isolated place as not to re-introduce the infection into Aztec society.

Here is the new update, look it over and help me make changes before I actually update the entry.
 
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