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Peten Journey (2313 words) |
 | Dos Pilas was so reviled by its subservient states that together they rose up and attacked and overwhelmed Dos Pilas, not before the inhabitants were able to dismantle much of the superstructure on the temples and palaces to build a palisade, or defensive wall around the main plaza. |
| Dos Pilas was not to be so easily defeated and the nobility escaped to Aguateca, which served as its final capital, a veritable "Masada" fortress atop a mesa surrounded by fault scars in the bedrock up to 250 feet deep. |
| But the enemies of Dos Pilas were not to be dissuaded from their task of killing a city, and Aguateca was somehow stormed and taken in a bitter battle. |
| Giant War (1353 words) |
| Dos Pilas was first established in A.D. 629 as a military stronghold of Tikal. |
| Dos Pilas was important to Tikal and later to Calakmul because it strengthened their clout at the southern edge of the Maya lowlands, which was a major gateway for trade. |
| Demarest thinks the warfare described in the Dos Pilas inscriptions may reflect a period when the Maya civilization was on the verge of moving to a higher level of organization and consolidating into a single empire. |
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