Chetumal province
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Chetumal, or the Province of Chetumal, was a Postclassic Maya state of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Maya Lowlands.
Ruins of Chichen Itza in 2005, by Claude Belair
Ruins of Mayapan in 2010, by Pavel Vorobiev
Temple of Kukulkan, at Chichen Itza, in 2013, by Veto Zereptram
Portrait of Thomas Gann (right) in the 1920s
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire with its Indigenous allies. Bet
Cortés and his counselor, the Nahua woman La Malinche, meet Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan, 8 November 1519
The death of Moctezuma, depicted in the Florentine Codex
Smallpox depicted in Book XII on the conquest of Mexico in the Florentine Codex
The Capture of Cuauhtemoc, 17th century, oil on canvas.