Maya Lords and Lordship: The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350-1600 - Paperbackby Sergio Quezada (Author), Terry L. Rugeley (Translator) When the Spanish arrived in Yucatn in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social power, arguing that it operated not over territory, as previous