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	Spanish conquest of Yucatán - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Spanish Conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities, particularly in the northern and central Yucatán Peninsula but also involving the Maya polities of the Guatemalan highlands region.
		This episode in the conquest and colonization of the Americas began in the early 16th century, but would prove to be a fraught and lengthier exercise in subjugation than the equivalent campaigns against the Aztec and Inca Empires.
		The Itza land was separated from Spanish Yucatán to the north and Spanish Guatemala to the south by thick jungles with little population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_Conquest_of_Yucatan (2516 words)

	H. Latin America, 1500-1800. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The conquest and colonization of Spanish America progressed outward from the earliest colony in Santo Domingo.
		By 1600, the territory from New Mexico and Florida in the north to Chile and the Río de la Plata in the south was, with the exception of Brazil, under the rule of the Crown of Castile.
		At the time that Spaniards engaged in the exploration, conquest, and colonization of America, Spain was a multiethnic society in the process of centralization and unification under the Crown of Castile (See 1479–1516).
	www.bartleby.com /67/894.html (474 words)

	Mayan Archeology - The Conquest - General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Spanish conquest had brought disease and warfare to this country and it was ironically fitting that illness and the activities of the Mayan resistance almost ended this expedition before it could begin.
		These apparantly tratorous tribes actually blame the resistant Mayas for the horrors of the conquest citing that it was the actions of the "non co-operating" tribes that would not pay tribute to the foreign strangers that caused the violence in the first place.
		Despite the devastating effects the conquest has had on the Maya, it is odd that in the writings of the time the Maya refer to the Spaniards in almost neutral tones.
	www.isourcecom.com /maya/conquest/conquestgeneral.htm (4130 words)

	Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas began with the arrival in the Western Hemisphere of Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) in 1492.
		This conquest occured in the context of the recently accomplished Reconquista pushing the pagan Moors from Iberian Peninsula.
		It is important to distinguish between the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_conquest (1778 words)

	Panama - History
		The regulations for colonial administration set forth by the Spanish king's Council of the Indies decreed that the Indians were to be protected and converted to Christianity.
		By a decree of 1538, all Spanish territory from Nicaragua to Cape Horn was to be administered from an audiencia in Panama.
		Spanish efforts to retain their monopoly on the rich profits from trade with their colonies provided a challenge to the rising maritime nations of Europe.
	countrystudies.us /panama/3.htm (3238 words)

	Costa Rica: The Spanish Conquest and Colonization
		The Spanish Conquest and Colonization: When Christopher Columbus made his fourth and final voyage to the New World in 1502, he landed at Isla Uvita, a tiny island just off the coast from what is now the major port city of Limón.
		Like the Spanish conquest in other parts of the New World, these expeditions were usually characterized by their violent nature and disrespect for the native peoples.
		During the first century of Spanish conquest, many natives succumbed to diseases that they had no natural immunity against, others died while attempting to resist the foreign invaders, still less fortunate ones were imprisoned and tortured, and some fled into remote mountainous regions.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/gonebirding/colony.html (874 words)

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		The 1519-1521 conquest of México by Hernán Cortez's conquistadores and the material profits emanating from the seizure and exploitation of its incredible riches served as an irresistible incentive for subsequent and intensive exploration efforts further north.
		At length, all but symbolic vestiges of armor disappeared by the mid- to late-seventeenth century as its use on the battlefield was rendered ineffective and obsolete by weapons and tactics that would characterize the Baroque period and the dawn of the eighteenth century.
		The first Spanish military uniform regulations did not appear until 1670, although there is evidence that an evolutionary trend toward the development of uniform dress codes for the Spanish military establishment began somewhat earlier.
	www.artifacts.org /conquest.htm (3903 words)

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		However, most people are unaware the Spanish had a great deal of concern over the legitimacy of the conquest of the Americas and about the rights of the Indians living there.
		Officially, the Spanish Crown based its right to rule the Indies upon prior discovery and just conquest, reinforced by the bulls of 1493, in particular by Inter caetera, which granted to Spain "islands and mainlands...towards the West and the South...with all their rights, jurisdictions and appurtenances," excepting lands already held by Christian princes.
		The result of this Spanish interest in the legitimacy of the conquest of the Americas lead to an extraordinary out pouring of books on political and legal thought that dealt with various aspects of the conquest.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/conquest/intellectual-2.html (822 words)

	The Conquest of Mexico
		The Spanish believed language and evangelization were the keys to making the natives “Spanish,” in their understanding of the world.
		Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the indigenous populations wrote in a pictographic style and used paintings as vehicles for writing history.
		Explores the conquest in the Yucatan through the use of Mayan accounts, which are incorporated in the volume.
	faculty.fullerton.edu /nfitch/history110b/conquestbib.htm (5645 words)

	Spanish Conquest
		The Spanish landed upon the shores of Meso-America in February of the year 1519, in the area of Vera Cruz.
		By November of that year, the Spanish fleet, commanded by Hernando Cortez, entered into Tenochtitlan and simply arrested the Emperor of the Aztec, Montezuma.
		The Spanish established the encomiendas, where the government granted conquerors the right to employ groups of Indians.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/topics/spanish_conquest.html (708 words)

	Global Arts & History: Spanish Conquest of El Salvador
		When the Spanish first ventured into Central America from the colony of New Spain (Mexico) in the early sixteenth century, the area that would become El Salvador was populated primarily by Indians of the Pipil tribe.
		The first such effort by Spanish forces was led by Pedro de Alvarado, a lieutenant of Hernan Cortes in the conquest of Mexico.
		The fortunes of the Spanish Empire waned throughout the eighteenth century and were dashed completely by the Napoleonic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808.
	www.globalartmall.com /2006/02/spanish-conquest-of-el-salvador.html (813 words)

	European Voyages of Exploration: Aztec Empire
		The Spanish assault on Mexico was set in motion by Diego Velásquez, the Spanish Governor of Cuba.
		By the early sixteenth century, the Spanish settlement in Cuba was mired in problems.
		Cortés' management of Spanish possessions in the Americas ensured that, by 1540, Mexico City (built on the ruins of Tenochtitlán) was the metropolis of Spanish America.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html (1055 words)

	Mexico - The Spanish Conquest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Aztec chieftains staged a revolt, however, and the Spanish were forced to retreat to the east.
		By the summer of 1521, the Spanish were ready to assault the city.
		As a symbol of political continuity, the capital of the new colony was to be built squarely atop the ruins of Tenochtitlán and was renamed Mexico after the Mexica tribe.
	countrystudies.us /mexico/6.htm (324 words)

	Spanish Conquest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After the conquest of Mexico was completed in the sixteenth century, Hernán Cortés sent Pedro de Alvarado, the most fearless of his captains, to subdue the Indians inhabiting the rumored rich lands of Guatemala.
		After the conquest, many of those not directly killed in the battles were decimated by new diseases brought in by the Spanish.
		A cultural assault followed: the Spanish Conquest led to the imposition of Catholicism and the establishment of various European forms of political organization.
	home.gwu.edu /~abeljr/Gmala/u2spqst.htm (741 words)

	Spanish Lesson Plans
		Spanish Lesson 2- Instead of getting a pronunciation of a particular word, you select the audio clip that accompanies a particular section (such as the Nouns or the Colors).
		Spanish Lesson 3: en la escuela (at school)- The numbers from 100 to 999999 are covered, regular -ar verb conjugation is introduced, you'll learn some question-and-answer words, and you'll find out how to tell time in Spanish.
		Spanish Writing Proficiency: Visual Enhancement of Letter- The overall goal of this project was to develop the students' writing proficiency in Spanish through "real" experiences rather than classroom exercises.
	www.teach-nology.com /teachers/lesson_plans/languages/spanish (1459 words)

	Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest - PowerBookSearch!
		According to historical consensus, the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cataclysm in which superior European technology and organization overwhelmed Native American civilizations.
		His compelling and revisionist presentation ultimately demonstrates that from the beginning of the Spanish Conquest, the way of life that evolved in the Americas was shaped in concert by diverse peoples of European, Native American, and African descent.
		The Spanish were indeed few, he acknowledges, but backed by great numbers of Indian allies and, more to the point, by non-Spanish conquistadors, particularly fl Africans like Juan Garc'a, who hauled a comfortable amount of gold to Spain from Peru and lived well thereafter.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0195176111.html (1396 words)

	Mexico History Spanish Conquest
		That was also the time that Spanish adventurers were swarming by the hundreds to the West Indies, following the discovery of the Americas in 1492 by Christopher Columbus.
		Cortez had more ambitious plans, however, and after landing on the coast of Veracruz, in 1521, made his way to Tenochtitlan, (today, ruins of the Templo Mayor archaeology site) the centre of power of the Aztec empire, which was built in the middle of a lake.
		Moctezuma received the Spanish with honours, fearing that they may be gods, according to an ancient prophecy.
	www.mexperience.com /history/conquest.htm (389 words)

	Spanish Abroad - History of Venezuela
		At the time of the Spanish Conquest of Venezuela, the region was inhabited by some 500,000 indigenous peoples belonging to three principal ethnolinguistic groups - the Cariban, Arawak and Chibcha.
		The first Spanish settlement on the mainland was established at Cumaná in 1521.
		The Spanish rulers were eventually thrown out by the young Simón Bolívar, known locally as 'El Libertador'.
	www.spanishabroad.com /venezuela/countryguide/history.htm (614 words)

	The Spanish Conquest
		The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began in late 1518 when Diego Velasquez, the current Spanish Governor of Cuba, decided to put together an expedition to the main land of what is now Latin America.
		Cortes claimed that his conquest was for Spain and to convert the primitive natives to Christianity, however, his true motives were for his own wealth and power.
		The conquest continued to move west and was now stronger than ever with the Tlaxcalans and Cempoalans on there side, and in late November the Spanish conquest reached the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan.
	www.personal.psu.edu /jtz115/spanishcon.html (1181 words)

	Spanish conquest of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is important to distinguish between the separate campaigns, the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.
		Although the Yucatán Peninsula is part of the modern-day country of Mexico, the Spanish conquest of Mexico refers to the conquest of the Mexica/Aztec Empire by Hernán Cortés from 1519-1521.
		The Spanish conquest of Yucatán, on the other hand, refers to the conquest and initial subjugation of the independent city-state polities of the Late Postclassic Maya civilization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Mexico (6480 words)

	Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On November 16, 1532, while the natives were in a celebration in Cajamarca, the Spanish Pizarro took the Inca Atahualpa prisoner by surprise, causing a great consternation between the natives and conditioning the future course of the fight.
		It was at this critical moment in the empire's history that the Spanish conquistadors under Francisco Pizarro arrived and after three long expeditions had already established the first Spanish settlement in northern Peru, calling it San Miguel de Piura on July of 1532.
		When Atahualpa came with 4000 unarmed soldiers and attendant, Friar Valverde spoke with him about the Spanish presence in his lands as well as engaged in a poorly executed attempt to explain to him the precepts of the Catholic religion, an attempt which was certainly not helped by an unskilled translator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Peru (2516 words)

	ICT [2004/08/05] 'Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest' by Matthew Restall
		What a shame, as Matthew Restall wrote in "Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest" (Oxford University Press), that much of that history has been distorted, knowingly or not, and in a way that makes Native people seem invisible or powerless in the wake of their European invaders.
		In fact, the "Conquest" took decades to control the core areas of Mexico and Peru, and revolts against the Spanish continued well into the modern era, of which the Zapatista uprising is only the latest example.
		Another Conquest myth has it that the Aztecs were duped, that their enemies triumphed through superior powers of communication and sheer cunning.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1091714398 (779 words)

	Discover Haiti: Haiti History - The Conquistadors -Spanish Conquest
		The struggle of Cotubanama to preserve the autonomy of the eastern province of Higuey against the brutality of Juan Esquivel was proof of that.
		However, as early as the second voyage, Columbus had undertaken a census of the population for the allocation of the Taino to the Spanish for labor and tribute.
		The main factor in the Taino population reduction directly results from Spanish obsession for gold and the establishment of the Encomienda and the Repartimiento, which destroyed the rhythm of their lives, and their social structure.
	www.discoverhaiti.com /history00_4_1.htm (3160 words)

	Mexico History - THE SPANISH CONQUEST (1519-1521)
		Under the command of the wily, daring Hernán Cortés, the vessels bore 550 Spanish soldiers and sailors, as well as 16 horses, the first of the species to tread the American continent.
		The comely and clever Malintzin was promptly baptized with a Spanish name, Marina, and appointed the task of intervening in further contacts with indigenous peoples.
		The Spanish army was thus beefed up with more than a thousand native warriors plus 200 porters.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpconquest.html (1694 words)

	Price Compare ISBN 0299141845 Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga To 1640 by Steve J. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This second edition of Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern’s 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book’s original publication—setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective.
		The geographical focus is a mountainous region in southwest Peru dominated by the city Huamanga (today known as Ayacucho, a city not too distant from the fictional town of Naccos, the setting for Death in the Andes).
		Remarkably, the Spanish, under the formidable leadership of Don Francisco de Toledo, within a decade had dramatically revised their colonial structure, and largely eliminated any possibility of future revolt by the Andean Indians.
	www.directtextbook.com /prices/0299141845 (625 words)

	Aztecs Meet the Spanish
		Spanish explorer Hernan Cortés encountered the Aztecs in 1519 and conquered them in 1521, claiming their empire for Spain.
		Your research and report needs to be done as quickly as possible since another Spanish explorer, Coronado, is planning to search for the legendary "Seven Cities of Gold" and Pizarro is readying an expedition to find another rich Indian culture to conquer.
		Patterns in Early Spanish Overseas Expansion by John E. Kicza, Why land was given to explorers as a reward.
	score.rims.k12.ca.us /activity/aztecs_spanish (1816 words)

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