When Spanish conquistadors began their conquest of South and Central America, they met very little resistance from the Maya civilization there. Why were the Maya so easy for the Spanish to defeat? A: The Mayas had joined the Incas in the mountains of South America, centuries before the Spanish arrived.

B: The Mayan culture and population had been weaked by a long-lasting and severe drought, centuries before the Spanish arrived.

C: The Mayas were a peace-loving people who were not willing to fight back against the Spanish mercenaries.

D: The Mayas had been defeated by the Aztecs and absorbed into their culture, a century before the Spanish arrived.