who became the next civilization to control the area, actually sacked Teotithuacan or their power-hungry leaders led to their own demise. The new clan constructed a new capital, named Tula, about 50 miles north of today’s
The Toltec civilization also influenced Mexico’s cultural history. Historians have determined that the Toltec people appeared in central Mexico near the 10th century and built the city of Tula, home to an estimated 30,000-40,000 people. Some have speculated that the Toltecs performed human sacr...
In 1808, Napoleon invaded Spain and occupied the country for five years. The invasion led to unrest and a push for revolution amongst the indigenous populations of the Spanish colonies. On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to declare war against Spain. Hidalgo, a Ca...
History of Mexico The history of Mexico is a long and varied one. As mentioned above, Indigenous civilization developed around 2500 BCE. Among the pre-European civilizations, the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec are the most well-known. The Olmec culture is often considered the "mother culture" because...
HISTORY OR DESTINY?MEXICANS have always exhibited an obstinate determination to safeguard the memory of the major events that have marked their society and this has coloured the way in which they view their identity and destiny. From pre-Columbian times they have been engaged in a continuous ...
the Mexicans were losing badly and eventually would go on to lose every major engagement in the war - clearly explaining the motives and beliefs of the men who comprised the battalion. Best of all, he tells the story in an entertaining, engaging style, proving yet again that the best ...
Mexico’s territory. Mexico’s boundaries following independence were very different to today. Flows of migrants linking the USA to Mexico at that time were from the USA to Mexico, the reverse of the direction of more recent flows, which have seen millions of Mexicans migrate north looking for...
The first major Mesoamerican civilization–the Olmecs–grows out of the early villages, beginning in the southern region of what is now Mexico. This period is marked by the effective cultivation of crops such as corn (maize), beans, chile peppers and cotton; the emergence of pottery, fine ar...
they were surprised to find a civilization of imposing appearance comprised of over 450,000 people. The largest city the New World at that time was Florence, Italy, the capital city of the arts and culture of the Renaissance, then 200,000 people. The complexity and well engineered organization...
religion, and language to the Mexica state, the Triple Alliance, and was suggested by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German naturalist and explorer, and was later adopted by Mexican scholars of the nineteenth century as a way to distance “modern” Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans....