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Oxib-Keh †. Tecun Uman †. In a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, 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 ...
- 1524–1697
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Apr 12, 2024 · Viceroyalty of New Spain, the first of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its conquered lands in the New World. Established in 1535, it initially included all land north of the Isthmus of Panama under Spanish control.
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- Bernal Díaz
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- Legacy
Díaz was born in 1492 in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, in Spain. Like many young men of his generation, he sought his fortune in military escapades in the New World. Díaz was in Nombre de Dios in Panama in 1514 where he served Pedro Arias de Avila (aka Pedrarias Dávila, b. 1442). In 1517, Díaz moved on to Cuba where he served under another infamous...
The First Voyage Díaz opens his work with a prologue stating: "What I myself saw, and the fighting in which I took part, with God's help I will describe quite plainly, as an honest eyewitness, without twisting the facts in any way." Díaz candidly summarises the motivation and objectives of the conquistadors: "to serve God and His Majesty, to give l...
Díaz's account has become an essential element of the history of this period. There are some discrepancies with other chronicles such as the rivalry between Cortés and Velázquez, and one or two events have been mixed up chronologically (perhaps the fault of long-dead archivists rather than always Díaz's). Several minor details do not match, for exa...
- Mark Cartwright
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( Spanish: Virreinato de Nueva España [birejˈnato ðe ˈnweβa esˈpaɲa] ⓘ; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl ), [3] originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.
Jun 8, 2019 · Guatemala Before the Conquest. The Maya Civilization peaked around 800 and fell into decline shortly thereafter. It was a collection of powerful city-states who warred and traded with one another, and it stretched from Southern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. The Maya were builders, astronomers, and philosophers with a rich culture.
Jun 28, 2016 · The 16th century was a period of dramatic change in Mesoamerica. Beginning with first contacts in the 1510s, followed by a series of invasion campaigns that ran from 1519 into the second half of the century, the arrival of Spaniards and their African auxiliaries transformed the region into a new entity. The colonists called it New Spain.
Dec 6, 2023 · The Viceroyalty of New Spain. Less than a decade after the Spanish conquistador (conqueror) Hernan Cortés and his men and Indigenous allies defeated the Mexica (Aztecs) at their capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the first viceroyalty, New Spain, was officially created. Tenochtitlan was razed and then rebuilt as Mexico City, the capital of ...
