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   Spanish conquest of Yucatán

   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.
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   Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

   The Spanish conquest of Yucatán took almost 170 years.
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   Maya civilization

   This campaign, sometimes termed "The Spanish Conquest of Yucatán," would prove to be a lengthy and dangerous exercise for the conquistadores from the outset, and it would take some 170 years before the Spanish established substantive control over all Maya lands.
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   Yucatán

   Spanish conquest of Yucatán
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   Spanish colonization of the Americas

   There is a difference between the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.
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   Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)

   Spanish conquest of Yucatán
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   Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán)

   Spanish conquest of Yucatán
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   Chichen Itza

   See also: Spanish conquest of Yucatán
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   Motul, Yucatán

   With the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, Conquistador Francisco de Montejo made Motul a Spanish colonial town.
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    Caste War of Yucatán

    In Spanish colonial times, Yucatán (like most of New Spain) was under a legal caste system, with officials born in Spain at the top, the criollos of Spanish descent in the next level, followed by the mestizo population, then the native hidalgos, descendants of the Pre-Columbian nobility who had collaborated with the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, and at the bottom were the mass of native indios.

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• Spanish conquest of Yucatán,
• Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire,
• Maya civilization,
• Yucatán,
• Spanish colonization of the Americas,
• Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador),
• Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán),
• Chichen Itza,
• Motul, Yucatán,
• Caste War of Yucatán