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What was the caste war about

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The Caste War of Yucatán began with the revolt of culturally Native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against the culturally European Latino population, called Yucatecos. The latter had long held political and economic control of the region.

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The Caste War, an indigenous uprising in the Yucatán that began in 1847, resulted in several thousand Spanish-speaking refugees settling in northern Belize, while Mayan communities were reestablished in the north and west

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