HISTORY OF MEXICO

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.