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| Kaya-Mutul war of 1845 | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Kayahallpa | Mutul | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| TBD |
Itzamnaaj B'alam Jasaw Chi Kem Yum Hachak K'atun May K'atun Ox Pat Yax Kelem Pat Winik Pek | ||||
| Strength | |||||
| TBD | 680,000 | ||||
the Kaya-Mutulese war of 1845, also known as the War of the Twin Gods, was fought in 1845 CE between the two Oxidentaleses theocracies of the Mutul and Kayahallpa. The war was part of a wider rivalry between the two states, dating back to the the Resurgence and the war of 1818, during which the Mutul had lost complete control over its southern neighbor, failed to prevent its unification under the Sapa Inka, and even lost many of its southern Provinces. In fact the recovery of these lost territory was the purported reason behind the war, and the reconquest of the entirety of the Kichwa-speaking area the Mutul' ultimate wargoal.
While the war was an overall victory for the Mutul and fixed the modern border between the two countries, the Mutuleses failed to regain many territories that had remained sympathetic or even faithful to the K'uhul Ajaw. Meanwhile, the Kayahallpa royal military placed the blame of the defeat in its report on the local elites and aristocraties, which they accused of not having helped the war effort as much as they should've. the Sapa Inka would spend the next decades consolidating his power at the expanse of said local elites.
Background
In the 1840s, the Mutul had been on a downward spiral for close to a century, since the creation of the First Tsurushimese Republic that weakened its grasp on its Oversea territories and the rise of the Sapa Inka Tupaq Churan, a spiral that accelerated greatly after the Kaya-Mutulese war of 1818 and the Second War for Kahei, resulting in the Lady Ik' Jol de-facto coup, her murder, and the civil war known as the Sajal War between the Monarchists led by the Regent Itzamnaaj B'alam and the Aristocracy re-united as the Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale. The final nail to the coffin for the Mutul' global status was, in the wake of the civil war, the Arthuristan Ultimatum which forced the Mutul to give up parts of its colonies to the Arthuristans and then abandon its control over the rest. By 1842, the dissolution of the Mutulese Empire was acted.
Since the end of the civil war, the Regency had been working on a vast series of political and economical reforms, with the stated goal of strengthening and reinforcing a State that was at its weakest comparatively to its neighbors : Kayahallpa, Sante Reze, and the Latin Empire. Itzamnaaj B'alam gave the country a Constitution in 1844, and completely re-organized the political structures of the Divine Throne. But since the first days of the Sajal War, he and his clique had been piloting the reconstruction of the economy and industry, mostly to the benefit of the military.