ANSWERS: 4
  • Yes, the Mayans were one of the first Native Americans encountered by the Spaniards
  • Yes they did. In the 15th century, Spaniards first contacted Mayans to be allowed to create colonies on their land. Mayans refused, which led to over a century of hardship between the two. Finally, in the year 1697, the Spanish all but destroyed the Mayan civilization. -Keido
  • I'm not sure if they did ever come into contact or not, I don't believe they did, or it was minimal at best. Maybe they encountered the remnants of the Maya, because their civilization collapsed. The Maya cities were abandoned because the civilization fell apart internally, not because of the Spaniards. No one knows the definitive cause, but there was warfare between the states, overuse/misuse of resources with a growing population, and reasonable studies indicate there were severe droughts in the region, adding to the troubles. The Spaniards/Europeans first landed in the Caribbean, which decimated the local populations, and they moved onward and destroyed the Aztecs. The collapse of the Mayan civilization is not the Spaniards AT ALL.
  • Yes! And that's the reason Mayan is no longer spoken. In fact the Spanish conquistadors change the language of everyone from Mexico down!

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