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History of Guatemala in maps
Guatemala as it appears in 7 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Guatemala, Captaincy of Guatemala. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Guatemala before it was Guatemala? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Guatemala · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Captaincy of Guatemala (mod. Guatemala) · Age of Revolutions
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · Haiti and Kenya independence
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · American Civil War
Guatemala and the Central American republics spent the 1850s fighting off exactly what the Confederacy dreamed of: William Walker’s filibuster expeditions to plant new slave states in the tropics (he ruled Nicaragua in 1856–57 and reinstated slavery there). The war ended the filibuster era — the men who might have sailed south died at Shiloh and Franklin instead — and Central America was left in peace by its northern neighbor for a generation.
| Neighbors & the outside world — the opening position |
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Guatemala · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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