Mayan And Spanish Encounters The spiritual conquest, or the Spanish goal to conquer and convert the Amerindians to Christianity during the colonial period is a rather difficult area to examine from an objective point of view. A wealth of sources exists but yet they are all from the Spanish perspective. Unfortunately the Mayan voices, or the conquered people, are silent, as their peoples had no form of written expression. One then must study and attempt to piece together the various Spanish accounts to determine how life was in the Yucatán peninsula during the sixteenth century. The writings of Domin