Other city-states also joined Becoming_a_member , including Cempoala and and polities bordering Lake Texcoco , the inland lake system of the Valley of Mexico .

The Spanish conquest of Chiapas was the campaign undertaken Action by the Spanish `` conquistadores '' against the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican polities in the territory that is now incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate into the modern Mexican state of Chiapas .

In the east of `` Circassia '' were two feudal polities , Greater Kabardá and Lesser Kabardá .

Meanwhile , in India , some regional polities within the increasingly fragmented Mughal Empire , with the support Supporting of the French , tried to crush Destroying a British attempt to conquer Conquering Bengal .

Petén was divided into different Maya polities engaged Participation in a complex web of alliances and enmities .

Catherine the Great of Russia took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus , which was , for swaths of it , an integral Persian domain .