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Gonzalo Guerrero was shipwrecked and then captured by the Maya in 1511; when found by other Spaniards about 20 years late, he had been made a warlord and refused to return to Spain. Why would the Maya make a low-born European sailor a warlord?

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Gonzalo Guerrero was shipwrecked and then captured by the Maya in 1511; when found by other Spaniards about 20 years late, he had been made a warlord and refused to return to Spain. Why would the Maya make a low-born European sailor a warlord?	4985	AskHistorians