These theocracies reached their peak in the central highland cities of Teotihuacan (outside the boundaries to the north of today’s Mexico City), Monte Alban (to the southwest in the State of Oaxaca), and in the great centers of the Mayas of southern Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula. The...
I’m up to Chapter 3 so far and would highly recommend this book to those who want understand the ‘why & how’ of what is happening in our society. Understanding post-modernism is the first step. This is a short summary gleaned from ‘Goodreads’ is a part of what the book is expl...
The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross The surreal story of Ferdinand Maximilian (1832-1867), the Habsburg archduke and younger brother of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria who was executed after a brief reign as Emperor of Mexico. In addition to the inherent interest of this strange tal...
1845. Annexation of Texas.1846. The Oregon Treaty.1846-1848. The Mexican War (Acquisition of California, New Mexico, etc.) 1849. California (Discovery of Gold).1850. Compromise of 1850.1854. Kansas-Nebraska Act.1857. The Dred Scott Case.1861-1865. The War for the Union.1863. Emancipation...
In the short-term, the Mexican-American War was caused by a local territorial dispute over the border between the US and Mexico. However, the true cause of the Mexican-American War wasManifest Destiny: the belief that Americans were fated by God to settle and develop the West. Believers in...
Timelines of the Mexican Revolution Mexico's transition from dictatorship to constitutional republic translated into ten messy years of skirmishing in Mexican history. More from the Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa Emiliano Zapata Francisco I. Madero ...
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-48). It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves wheth...
With a bewildered expression on my face I looked at my friend and asked her.. “Okay, and who do you want to find?” She thought for a moment and then said “I want to find my family who lived in Texas one half the year and Mexico the other half.” ...
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On the way back to California, another guy was driving and I was in the passenger seat when he attempted to pass another car on a hill outside of Gallup, New Mexico and we smashed in the front of the car. The car could still be driven and we went into Gallup. There was no car ...