Spanish conquest of Guatemala
The Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, in which Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. Before the conquest, this territory contained a number of competing Mesoamerican kingdoms, the majority of which were Maya. Many conquistadors viewed the Maya as "infidels" who needed to be forcefully converted and pacified, disregarding the achievements of their civilization. The first contact between the Maya and European explorers came in the early 16th century when a Spanish ship sailing from Panama to Santo Domingo was wrecked on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in 1511. Several Spanish expeditions followed in 1517 and 1
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Spanish conquest of Guatemala
The Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, in which Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. Before the conquest, this territory contained a number of competing Mesoamerican kingdoms, the majority of which were Maya. Many conquistadors viewed the Maya as "infidels" who needed to be forcefully converted and pacified, disregarding the achievements of their civilization. The first contact between the Maya and European explorers came in the early 16th century when a Spanish ship sailing from Panama to Santo Domingo was wrecked on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in 1511. Several Spanish expeditions followed in 1517 and 1
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25بك هذه المقالة تحتاج للمزيد ...... فر تجاويف وتبطينها بعصى خشبية.
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La conquista de Guatemala fue ...... timo reino maya independiente.
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La conquête du Guatemala fut u ...... s de rangées de pieux en bois.
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The Spanish conquest of Guatem ...... ining them with wooden stakes.
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... we waited until they came ...... nce ... and many of them died.
The Kaqchikel began to fight t ...... l destroyed all these peoples.
We came here to serve God and the King, and also to get rich.
one could make a whole book .. ...... y those that went to Guatemala
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Annals of the Kaqchikels
Bartolomé de las Casas
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Pedro de Alvarado describing t ...... is 3rd letter to Hernán Cortés
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25بك هذه المقالة تحتاج للمزيد ...... في النص الحالي. (فبراير 2015)
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La conquista de Guatemala fue ...... tocaron tierra en diferentes
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La conquête du Guatemala fut u ...... es Mayas fut longue et âpre et
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The Spanish conquest of Guatem ...... ditions followed in 1517 and 1
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Conquista de Guatemala
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Conquête du Guatemala
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Spanish conquest of Guatemala
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الغزو الإسباني لغواتيمالا
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