New Mexico

Emiliano Zapata was a revolutionist and wanted change for the country of Mexico in 1910 for the better of low class citizens. He and many others fought for equality in the Mexican Revolution. Rebelling against the Mexican army and wanting to overthrow dictatorial leadership displayed his urge for leadership change. With leadership change, he would be able to aid the peasants with new laws that would have greatly benefited Mexico as whole thus having economical change. Additionally, he demanded…

that a remote frontier province named Texas would be the key to Mexico’s independence.” Moreover, he managed to put together a few men to help him with his mission “Shailer enlisted the aid Lt Augustus Magee and helped Gutierrez send propaganda into New Spain. Crossing the Sabine with some 130 men on August 8, 1812, Magee scattered royalist’s frontier detachments and entered Nacogdoches on August 12.” Without the knowledge of Spain entire army in Texas Gutierrez travelled to Louisiana with a…

The book called ¨The True History of the Conquest of New Spain¨ is a work by the author Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was one of the soldiers participating in most of the days of the conquest of Mexico in the sixteenth century. Bernal Diaz del Castillo was a Spanish conquistador, who participated in the conquest of Mexico and was later alderman of the City of Guatemala. Each of the fourteen chapters become an experience for the reader. As shown in the simplicity of his style, Bernal Diaz del…

little Mexican food history can spice up your kitchen and shed some light on the roots of many or our favorite dishes. Case in point: when the Spanish invaded Mexico in 1521, they brought with them many new varieties of livestock including pigs, cows and sheep, the likes of which Mexico had never seen. The Spanish explorer Cortez introduced Mexico to these and other foods such as dairy products, garlic and other spices as well as dairy products like cheese. Mexican food also has strong…

Mexico in recent years has become increasingly more violent. However, this seems to be a contradiction to an established theory that through democratization there is less violence. This seems to be an interesting development to Mexico’s recent democratization. So the question remains, did the institutional changes that led to democracy in Mexico result in more violence? My answer to this question is that the democratization of Mexico has resulted in more violence because the PRI allowed for the…

When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, the fate of the nation’s enslaved Afro-descendant population entered a phase of uncertainty. Mexico’s slave system had been in the process of collapsing even before Mexico became an independent republic. George Reid Andrews shows in his study on Afro-Latin America that less than one percent of the Afro-Mexican population remained enslaved by 1800. Although slavery remained legal after Mexico’s independence, the 1824 Mexican Constitution…

States and Mexico greatly affected many people, during and after the war. It was unique and unlike any other war, because it was fundamentally about violence. The violence did not end once the military phase of the world ended. Ultimately the war was about land, labor, and wealth. It was also about language, culture, race, and religion. The affects of this war greatly affected many people during and even after the war was over. The war greatly changed both the United States and Mexico, and…

between Mexico and the United States national soccer team. In the film he incorporates two significant themes, which are cultural identities and cultural rivalries within the soccer fan base. In Mexico, soccer means more than just a sport for the people because it is more a passion they live in their everyday life. Mexicans take pride in their allegiance to the national soccer team. This is in reason because soccer has been a leverage to international recognition and dominance. Children in…

The Mexican war caused conflict within America. In 1836, after Mexico had won its independence from Spain, Texas rebelled against the Mexican government. Texas won its independence from Mexico with the help of US troop, but Mexico did not recognize the new Republic of Texas. The United States did not originally want any trouble with Mexico, and turned down Texas' request to join the Union but then this was later changed when Mexico refused to let the US purchase Texas. The US did not want to…

A simple observation of Mexico’s current demographic statistics makes it difficult to believe that the slave population of New Spain, modern day Mexico, was the largest in the Americas at one point in time. Just one percent of the Mexican population currently identifies as being of African descent, a significantly smaller portion of the population than other former slave colonies in the Americas. This small prevalence of the Afro-Mexican population has led to a lost history of these people,…