Once Hernán Cortés got Tenochtitlán and conquered the Mexican empire, his captain Pedro de Alvarado moved to the South to explore new lands. He reached the peninsule of Yucatán and got into Central America through the present territories of Guatemala and Honduras. The people he found there was culturally related with the Mexicans, but displayed clear differences in many aspects. Some of these differences had to see with the natural environment, since most of the Mayans (that was the name of that people) lived ... (more)