Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars by Florine Asselbergs, Matthew Restall

Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars

Florine Asselbergs, Matthew Restall

132 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony--with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the rea...

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