User:Cooochukempachella
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 .
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- ^ 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.