Life in northern Belize and also southern Belize in the Toledo District seems to have been more concerned with living and the economics of successful trade. We can say that the Belizean Maya communities with a peak population of about 350,000 survived the seven hundred years of the classic Maya geographic wars unscathed. There probably were local raids and struggles befitting the traditions of the time, but nothing on the scale of the wars in the Peten. Belize was then and still is today, a place of refuge for the immigrant, fleeing war, poverty and oppression. We do know there was a complicated set of interrelationships between Dos Pilas, Tikal, Naranjo and El Peru in the Peten of that time.
Prosperity seems to have returned after the decline of Kings and wars.
This seems to indicate that the deceased old King Flint Sky God had been successful in his political machinations and a coordinated military and political geographical area where sub leaders owed allegiances to a central regional political group developed. There must have been an enormous population in the eastern Peten and even more in the central and western Peten. It is estimated nearly a half a million people lived in the eastern Peten near Belize alone. About 682 A.D., the scion of Shield Skull who had been imposed as ruler on Tikal from Caracol much earlier in history, seems to have adopted, or wrapped himself with some semblance of joining with the hereditary line from Tikal. There was a lot of marriage between rulers in different city groups and the family lines mixed.