WHO ARE THE MAYAS? the mayas have created a civilisation rather an empire. Composed of many peoples, speaking nearly the same language. The Maya was including 24 ameridian languages itself. The mayas arrived from Asia by the strait of Bering at the unknown date. the date of their settling on the actual lands of the peninsula Yucatan (Mexico and Belize), of Guatemala and honuduras is also unknown, but goes back at least at the second millennium before our era.
The area mayan was organised in cities who lives between confrontations and exchanges. In 1523, Herman Cortes, was named one year earlier General captain of the new Spain by the emperor Charles Quint, sent one of his lieutenants, Pedro de Alvarado, explore the region. When the spanish colons arrived in central America, the civilisation maya was already her itself shadow. the most beautiful cities, the most remarkables monuments were abandoned and were delivered to the nature. the conquistador de alvarado occupied the province of Soconusco( in Guatemala) on the pacific cost then attacked the mayas tribes.
The collapse of the mayas tribes: themayas of tyhe high lands submit themselves to the invaders and they are convent to catholicisme in one way or another. but it's in 1541 that the mayas are totally submited by the settlers. The mayas lost any sovereignty and had to pay taxes and gave their work's strength to the settlers. with the introduction of diseases that mayas couldn't resist, the destruction of that tribe is finished. Less of a