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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya & Spaniard in Yucatan 1517-70 by Inga Clendinnen

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When the Spaniards discovered this land, their leader asked the Indians how it was called; as they did not understand him, they said uic athan, which means, what do you say or what do you speak, that we do not understand you. And then the Spaniard ordered it set down that it be called Yucatán...
(Antonio de Ciudad Real, 1588)
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