Dr. James Fitzsimmons

He's not supposed to be doing what he's doing.

Like, he's just gone rogue.

Oh, really?

Yeah, he's not even, no.

They're supposed to be doing like a trading mission.

They're not supposed to be doing like all this conquest stuff.

And it goes, in many parts of the Americas, it goes from basically being like trade mission and such to just personal greedy Spanish, you know, Spanish conquistadores who want something.

And they decide to convince a bunch of small group people to basically do what they want.

It's like basically, you know,

expedition treasure hunting stuff.

So it doesn't start off that way.

And there's no reason that the indigenous folks who were there, Aztecs or Maya and such, had any reason to believe that the Spanish were actually there to stay or really do anything.

It's only in hindsight that we see this, but no.

And it's really piecemeal.

So like the Maya, for example,

The last Maya stronghold, one of the last Maya strongholds, is a place called Tayasal.

If you go to Tikal today, if you want to go see Tikal, you have to go to a place called Flores, which is an island city in the middle of Petén.

There's a lake there, right?

Tayasal is right outside that lake.

It's the largest lake in Guatemala.