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THE CONQUEST
 The
first encounter happened in 1511, when sinking a boat of the
expedition of Valdivia that towards the route from Panama
to Santo Domingo. Two survivors, Gonzalo Guerrero and Jero'nimo
de Aguilar, were made prisoners by the Mayans; Soldiers were
adopted to their customs, married and had descendants, arriving
including a to fight next to the Mayans against their compatriots;
whereas Aguilar remained like slave and, in 1519, it was united
to Courteous being one of his you interpret during Conquista
of Mexico.
 After
the fall of the Aztec Empire in Mexico, Spain began the conquest
of the Mayans in Guatemala and Honduras. The conquest of Honduras
was made by Francisco de Montejo, Andrés Cereceda and
Pedro de Alvarado. In 1523 D.C. Pedro de Alvarado began the
conquest of Guatemala. Its first effort failed, but he tried
again in 1525 D.C. Honduras and Guatemala were conquered with
very few battles and in very just a short time, with exception
of the Itzá de Tayasal. Due to the strategic location
of Tayasal the Spaniards decide to leave it and is until the
year of 1697 D.C. when the Spaniards return to the city that
was burned and destroyed by the Spaniards. But late in the
year 1523 D.C. the conquest of Chiapas begun by the commander
was made Diego de Mazariegos with not many registered battles.
The resistance more hard was shown by the tribes of the Chamulas
in March of 1524 D.C. and the battle of Tepetchia in November
of 1526 D.C. Two years later, the Spaniards founded the Real
City, near Chamula which had been burned. Today the beautiful
city of San Cristóbal of the Houses feels in this spot.
 Yucatán
was dicovered in 1517 by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba,
hower, was in 1526 D.C. that captain, Francisco de Montejo,
the Father, began to conquer and colonizer the Peninsula.
wit the aid of its son Francisco de Montejo, The Son, and
his nephew, Francisco de Montejo, The Nephew, took almos 20
years to dominate to tha Mayans in Yucatán.
In 1541 D.C. the Spaniards could to end to him the Mayan resistance.
The revolt continued, nevertheless, to calm a little the anxieties
of conquest of the Spaniards for the rest of the century.
The city of Mérida Yucatan settled down the 6 of January
of 1542, in establishing by a called Indian T'ho. The city
of Valladolid, in the center of the state of Yucatan, was
established in the top of a Mayan city called Zaci.
 
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