heros
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Post by heros on Nov 7, 2010 19:33:15 GMT 2
Dear H.E. José Cáceres Farfán. C.I., The history of the country, that you are Ambassador in, seems to be very interesting. Can you give me some details - when the first traces of human life are coming from, what kingdoms in the years had been passing through this country. Thanks in advance ! With all my respect !
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Nov 16, 2010 16:49:31 GMT 2
Post by H.E. José Cáceres Farfán. C.I. on Nov 16, 2010 16:49:31 GMT 2
The history of Mexico, a country located in North America or, if you will, in the northernmost portion of Mesoamerica, dating back some 14,000 years (according to the consensus of Clovis), which estimates the first settlements occurred sedentary people. Before the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, what is now Mexico was inhabited by people of advanced cultures interacted with each other in varying degrees, in time and territory. From that time stand the Olmec culture, the Toltec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Nahuatl, the Totonac, Zapotec, Mixtec, the Tarascan, among others.
On arrival of Europeans, Mexico was a mosaic of peoples and cultures without national cohesion. After the conquest, for 300 years of colonialism, it was to be a country with some degree of homogeneity and common features. In the early nineteenth century with the independence of the Spanish empire is reached, it starts the final integration process which results in contemporary Mexico. Throughout the nineteenth century wars and disputes happen intestine, and several attempts at subjugation by foreign powers. At that time Mexico lost nearly half its territory, after which began its consolidation as a free and sovereign nation.
Wine, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a bloody social movement that laid the groundwork political, legal and social aspects of contemporary Mexico. During most of this century, the nation lived in peace a learning process and self-correction, both institutional and social and economic aspects. After cutting several fundamentally economic crisis and political, the latter of which is not bettered, the nation evolves and settles toward the end of the first decade of XXI century occasion that marks 200 years of independence from Spain and 100 years of transforming revolution.
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heros
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Nov 18, 2010 17:23:49 GMT 2
Post by heros on Nov 18, 2010 17:23:49 GMT 2
Dear H.E. José Cáceres Farfán. C.I., I feel that the coming of Europeans to Mexico is not very much considered as a positive act. Don't people in Mexico, see also the positives of that invasion. F.e. technologies, or Christian Faith ?
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Post by H.E. José Cáceres Farfán. C.I. on Nov 19, 2010 1:34:00 GMT 2
Between the fall of Tenochtitlan and the establishment of the Viceroyalty of New Spain fourteen years elapsed. At that time, the government was first by Hernán Cortés, who proclaimed himself Captain General of New Spain. Were named after the Royal Audiencia of Mexico, of the Crown of Spain, with the purpose of making better management of the colony.
Hernán Cortés Monroy Pizarro Altamirano (Medellín (Badajoz), 1485 - Castilleja de la Cuesta (Sevilla), December 2, 1547), Spanish conqueror of the Aztec empire (now central Mexico.) I Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca, Governor and Captain General of New Spain. The viceroyalty was established in 1535 and was its first viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza. In its history, New Spain was ruled by 62 different viceroys of historic importance, among which Bucareli Antonio Maria (1771-1779) and Fray Payo Enriquez de Rivera (1672-1680).
The discovery of new deposits of various minerals in the central and northern area (from Sonora to the southern province of Mexico) allowed New Spain gradually take the place of privilege, especially in the extraction of silver. Mining allowed the development of other related activities, especially the textile mills and agriculture, that turned Bajio regions or valleys of Mexico and Puebla in prosperous agricultural regions and emerging industrial activity.
The trade of the colony was made through two ports. These were Veracruz on the Gulf, and Acapulco in the Pacific. To him came the Nao de China, a ship carrying goods from the Philippines to New Spain and then to the metropolis. Contributed to the flourishing trade of these ports, Mexico City and the intermediate regions between them. It should be noted that until the late eighteenth century with the introduction of the Bourbon reforms, trade between the Spanish colonies was not allowed.
The colonial society was highly segmented. On the one hand, there existed a code on the relations between ethnic groups. Although it was never so severe that no cultural exchange permitted or biological mixing, it had a definition of the position a person occupied in the social scale according to a supposed mixture of blood. The more Spanish blood, the better position, so the Peninsular Spanish (or Spaniards) occupying positions of privilege.
During the colonial period gave birth to many popular traditions and traditional institutions that give character to the Mexican people today.
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