Significant900 CE – 1500 · 600 years

Mixtec-Zapotec Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Oaxaca · Mexico

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Long series of conflicts between Mixtec and Zapotec kingdoms in Oaxaca. Mixtec expansion gradually dominated the region through the Postclassic period, with repeated wars over territory and tribute.

Belligerents2

Mixtec kingdoms
Zapotec kingdoms

ON THE MAPMixtec Kingdoms

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Mixtec-Zapotec Wars (900 CE – 1500). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-mixtec-zapotec-wars-900 · Sources & methodology