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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
The Pre-columbian History of the Mayas
and of the Itzas, 1445
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Migratory period	2
The Golden Age or Old Empire of the Maya	3
The Colonization period	5
Transitional period	6
Renaissance or League period	6
The period of the Toltec mercenaries	8
Disintegration	9
Note: Cogolludo's account of the early history of the Mayas and of some of their customs	10

CHAPTER II
The Political, Social, and Geographical Features of
the Itza State During the Period of 1445-1697
The significance of the Itzas	16
The location of Peten or Tayasal	16
Description of Peten and its surroundings	17
The lake neither rises nor falls	18
The temples of Tayasal described by Avendaño	18
The palace of Canek, Chief of the Itzas	19
The districts of Peten Itza	19
Extent of the Itza dominion under the Chief Canek	20
Quincanek	21
Further infomation about the region	21
The Itzas described	22

CHAPTER III
The First Spanish Entradas into Yucatan, 1517-1526
The first Spaniards in Yucatan	24
Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, 1517	24
Juan de Grijalva and other, 1518	25