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THE HISTORY OF MEXICO

the history of Mexico, a country situated in the north of the American continent or, if you will, the northernmost portion of Mesoamerica, dates back to about 14,000 years ago (in accordance with the consensus of Clovis), in which an estimated occurred the first settlements of sedentary people. Before the conquest by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century, what is nowMexico was inhabited by peoples of advanced civilizations that interacted between them in varying degree, in the time and the territory.
The arrival of Europeans, Mexico was a mosaic of peoples and cultures. After the conquest, during 300 years of colonialism, it was still a country with a certain degree of homogeneity and common features.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century with theindependence that is reached of the Spanish empire, starts the process of final integration that gives rise to contemporary Mexico.
Wine, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a bloody social movement that laid the foundations political, legal and social of the Mexico current. During the greater part of this century the nation lived in peace a process of learning and self-healing, both in theinstitutional and social and economic aspects.
Periodization in Mexico's history is usually divided into four major periods. Before the history we have the prehistory which, unlike the European history, the prehistory of America is divided into three periods: the Period Arqueolitico that approximately the year 30,000 BC to 9500 BC; the Cenolitico of 9500 to 5000 BC and finally the Protoneolitico periodof 5000 to 2500 B.C.
It should also be noted that, the territory that now comprises Mexico, has been divided for your study in prehispanic Mesoamerica two cultural areas Aridoamerica and, being the first where the more complex societies and the latter an area inhabited mainly by nomadic tribes.
The first period in the history of Mexico is precisely the pre-hispanic or columbian, which goes from2500 BC to the year 1521, year of the fall of Tenochtitlan.
The following period it has been called colonial era, during which time Mexico was joined to the Spanish Crown and comprises of the year 1521 to 1821 (the date it is signed the act of independence), however most historians agree that it is in 1810 when a break and arises the modern Mexico. The colonial era will comprise theEstablishment of the Viceroyalty, the arrival of the religious orders, the emergence of the Virgin of Guadalupe and changes in the economic and administrative activity, passing by elarte baroque.
The modern-day Mexico thus encompasses a century exactly, of the beginnings of the insurgent movement of independence in 1810 and ends in1910 with the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
From 1910 to date has beencalled the contemporary Mexico, begins with the Mexican Revolution, on which there are still discussions about the date of your term and there is even talk of several revolutions, but as a convention has been taken 1917 with the triumph of constitutionalism
. Even so, in the following years will be some uprisings of struggle for power in charge of Alvaro Obregon and the Orchard. This time alsoincludes the periods of the Maximato, Lazaro Cardenas
Pre-hispanic Mexico The territory was discovered and inhabited by groups of nomadic hunters and gatherers more than 30,000 years ago. For thousands of years, the inhabitants of this region of America is devoted to hunting and gathering, until discovered agriculture.
In Guila Naquitz were found the most ancient remains of the domestication ofseveral cultivos,1 although the agriculture was also developed in sites such as the Valle de Tehuacan and the sierra de Tamaulipas.
The pre-hispanic history of what is now northern Mexico is poorly known because the people who occupied the region had a material culture limited.
The customs of nomadic peoples who inhabited deserts, coasts and mountains to the north of Mesoamerica are called...