HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS

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                  HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF
                        YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS




                               CHAPTER I

                 THE PRECOLUMBIAN HISTORY OF THE MAYAS
                         AND OF THE ITZAS, 1445


In general it may be said that the Maya culture occupied the peninsula
of Yucatan, portions of the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico,
Guatemala, and the northern part of Honduras. That branch of the Mayas
who called themselves the Itzas and who form the chief subject of this
work occupied the southern portion of Yucatan and the greater part of