User:Cooochukempachella

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College student: studying anthropology for a major and minoring in Latin american studies and Spanish

Orgin:Mestizo

from Michocan/Zacatecas

History

Christopher Columbus traded with Maya merchants off the coast of Yucatan in 1502 but he never set foot on land in Yucatan .Within a decade,The first Spanish that arrive to Yucatan came from a Caribbean sea shipwreck the Maya sacrificed  most of them and only two survived  . (Gerónimo de Aguilar) who in 1519 joined Hernán Cortez on the Yucatan island of Cozumel and took part in the conquest of central Mexico.The other survivor  (Gonzalo Guerrero) was a Mexican legend as father of the first Mestizo: by Aguilar’s account he went native married native women he wore traditional native apparel and fought against the Spanish .

roman alphabet, from 1557 to 1851 they were written by Maya notaries,their written works exist in the U.S.A , Mexico, and Spain Libraries or archives[1]

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  2. ^ "Yucatan History". Institute for the Study of the Americas. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  3. ^ "Mayan Language Family | About World Languages". aboutworldlanguages.com. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  4. ^ Hanks, William F. (2012-01-01). "BIRTH OF A LANGUAGE: The Formation and Spread of Colonial Yucatec Maya". Journal of Anthropological Research. 68 (4): 449–471.