Yucatán

Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 is centered around three Spaniards and their approach to Maya in the Yucatan Peninsula. Clendinnen weaves a tale of forced conversion, colonial power struggles, and mass torture, but she contextualized these horrors in a way that the rationales of the Spaniards do not get lost. However, the Maya side of the story gets lost with only one Maya figure, the resistance leader Nachi Cocom, emerges as an individual. The Catholic religion and its doctrine proved to be the largest shaping force on the three primary figures featured in the Ambivalent Conquests. Franciscan Diego de Landa, mayor Diego Quijada, and bishop Francisco de Toral and of the three Landa stands above the others, an…

Cancun, a Mexican city on the Yucatán Peninsula, bordering the Caribbean Sea, was discovered by the Mayan ("Cancun" 1). Since Cancun is a peninsula, it is normally a tropical climate. Specifically a tropical wet and dry climate, with temperature differences between seasons, but it is a rainy place. May, June, September, and October are the wettest months of the year, in the two months, there is an average of 9 inches each month. All though Cancun is warm year-around. It is basically like having…

In the world of the ancient Maya there were many sacred days, most often associated with celestial events. But none perhaps more widely celebrated than the Spring and Fall Equinox at the ancient site of Chichén Itza in central Yucatan.Each year thousands of pilgrims and curiosity seekers flock to the nearly six square miles of national park ruins to watch a phenomena that was carefully mapped by ancient architects and astronomers. On the day of both the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox…

travel to Central America in general and Mexico’s Maya area in particular, John Lloyd’s book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan is the ideal book since it does a good job of groundbreaking the region for the reader and the traveler alike. In spite of the passion and keenness with which the book is narrated and illustrated, it still manages to achieve the objective of delivering the uncontaminated message about the Central American discovery in a timeless manner. This statement is true considering…

Ancient Maya Geography Mayan civilization occupied most of what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. In the early days in Mayan society, they were situated around Mexico, and Central America The Mayans built small huts with thatched roofs, usually one-room. The walls consisted of interwoven wooden poles, and dried mud. Huts were used primarily for sleeping, cooking and other daily chores took place outside. Decision Making The King or High Priest were at the top of the Hierarchy The King was believed…

Essay C While trekking through the Yucatan Peninsula I discovered a primordial chest hidden beneath an alluring waterfall. The chest contained a golden antique artifact resembling a ticket. I soon realized the ticket held celestial powers that allowed the beholder to physically travel through space-time and back. Amazed by the powers I had acquired, I decided to travel back in time to one of my parents darkest moments: their miscarriage. My mission was to travel back in time and save my deceased…

indigenous people in the Yucatán peninsula brought on challenges between the two cultures both fighting to coexist. The Spaniards however had other plans when it came to subjugating the indigenous people and starving the land of its resources and riches. The Spaniards wanted to see the Yucatán peninsula in a vision of Spanish ideals and culture preferences forcefully passing on their Christian religion with the idea of expanding upon the Christian religion to cleanse them of their demons. With…

Months passed, but no reinforcements came to the aid of the trapped Spaniards. Montejo the Younger attempted an all out assault against the Maya to break their siege and lost 150 of his few remaining forces. He was forced to abandon the city of Chichén Itzá under cover of darkness in 1534. By the year 1535, Montejo was forced to withdraw his forces to Veracruz and leave the Yucatán once again completely in the control of the Maya. At this point, Francisco de Montejo 's men were…

Months passed, but no reinforcements came to the aid of the trapped Spaniards. Montejo the Younger attempted an all out assault against the Maya to break their siege and lost 150 of his few remaining forces. He was forced to abandon the city of Chichén Itzá under cover of darkness in 1534. By the year 1535, Montejo was forced to withdraw his forces to Veracruz and leave the Yucatán once again completely in the control of the Maya. At this point, Francisco de Montejo 's men were…

“the now” if I had grown up speaking the language of the Hopi people. I believe that not having much regard for time would play an essential role in the lively spirit and way of living if I were born and raised in a Hopi family. The Yucatan Mayan language is one that I have learned, in a very short period of time, to strongly dislike to say the absolute least. I have grown up being an individual that has had somewhat of a problem with correcting sentences as I hear them. I ask many questions…