History of Mexico

By IntroBooks Team

Unlike the USA, the history of Mexico dates back to well within
1900 years or so. Discovery of Mexico was a coincidence.
Again, the Spaniards were the first to discover Mexico too.
French and the Spanish armies try to invade Mexico and
neighboring parts of the north Americas. The Mexican
revolution that followed the American Revolution brought in
total peace and Mexico gained total liberty from the foreign
imperialistic measures. Sooner broke out the war between the
neighbors which did not last for longer. Terms and pacts
brought in peace in the borders after mutual agreement made
with the USA. Today Mexico is one of the competent nations
of the world, with massive natural resources and technological
growth and development in the 21st century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IntroBooks
• Release date: Nov 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393976561

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History of Mexico

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Preface

Unlike the USA, the history of Mexico dates back to well within 1900 years or so. Discovery of Mexico was a coincidence. Again, the Spaniards were the first to discover Mexico too. French and the Spanish armies try to invade Mexico and neighboring parts of the north Americas. The Mexican revolution that followed the American Revolution brought in total peace and Mexico gained total liberty from the foreign imperialistic measures. Sooner broke out the war between the neighbors which did not last for longer. Terms and pacts brought in peace in the borders after mutual agreement made with the USA. Today Mexico is one of the competent nations of the world, with massive natural resources and technological growth and development in the 21st century.

Chapter 1

Introduction - The Mayas

Mesoamerica is the name of good old Mexico, as per the historians. 200000 inhabitants alone get settled here for the first time in this huge land mass. These indigenous tribes were known as the Mayans who ruled the place for more than 6 centuries. Since 280 CE to all until 900CE, the rule belonged to the Mayans. This age is called as the classical period.

The Mayan empire

Clear trade routes were formed in the demographics with each city having its own temple, pyramids, plazas, canals, ball courts, palaces and so forth.

The Mayan Creation Myth

One of the most important crops that were cultivated locally among the so many other crops is the squash and the beans. Food crop that belonged to the Mayans was maize. Water dwelling serpents tried almost three times to create the human beings but ended up in failure for the first two attempts. Finally they succeeded in creating the Mayans. This is the myth