Key Figures
He led the Auto de Fé in Maní and burned Maya books. 🔥
Who is Diego de Landa?
When the Spanish moved Maya people into towns to teach Christianity. ✝️⛪
What is reducciones?
Maya city on the Mexico-Belize border, where the Spanish first attacked. ⚔️🔥
What is Chetumal?
Year Pedro de Urriola led the first Spanish attack into Chetumal. ⚔️⚔️
What is 1531?
Maya did these to secretly keep worshiping their gods. 🙏☀️🐍
What are secret rituals?
Maya priest who resisted Spanish religious control. ✝️
Who is Chilam Cuoh?
System that made Maya work for Spanish settlers while converting them. 👷♂️✝️
What is encomienda?
Maya village that resisted the Christian religion the longest. ⚔️ ✝️
What is Monche Chol?
The years the Pacheco brothers led their big attacks in Chetumal. ⚔️🔥⚔️
What is 1543–1544?
Maya ran to these places to hide from the Spanish's religious conversion. 🏃♂️🌲🌳
What are remote areas (forests or faraway towns)?
One of the Spanish brothers who led attacks in Chetumal. ⚔️🤺
Who is Alonso Pacheco/Melchor Pacheco?
Religious ceremony done on babies by the Spanish. 🕊️💦👶
What is baptism?
Maya land on the Mexico-Belize border where Spanish first attacked.
What is Chetumal?
The Spanish burned these to remove Maya religious teachings. 🔥📖
What are Religious Mayan Books (The Popol Vuh and The Chilam Balam)
Maya leaders sometimes led this against Spanish religious rules. 🚨⚔️
What are uprisings/revolts?
The other Spanish brother in the Chetumal attacks. 🤺⚔️
Who is Melchor Pacheco/Alonso Pacheco?
Buildings the Spanish made to replace Maya temples. 🏢
What are churches?
Nearby Maya land, same culture but separate rulers. The Spanish also tried to convert them to Christianity. ✝️⛪✝️
What is Dzuluinicob?
Religious lessons missionaries taught to explain prayers and the Bible. ⛪📕
What is catechism?
The name of the Mayan Serpent associated with creation, the wind, and bringing light and order to the world. 🐍🟰💨🕯️
Who is Kukulkan?
Spanish priests worked with these leaders to help force conversion. ✝️⛪
What are Mayan Religious leaders?
Spanish destroyed these sacred Maya objects. 🔥🔥
What are idols or sacred books?
A Spanish town built after the conquest of Chetumal. 🛖🛖
What is Salamanca de Bacalar?
Spanish sometimes used these to make Maya convert. ✝️☑️
What are punishments and rewards?
Losing this important part of their identity and beliefs made Maya communities weaker under Spanish rule. 🐍
What are Maya religious practices?