Chiapas

upon women; this was fuelled by the claims of Diéguez that he found evidence of canon trials for rape and seduction of women. Anticlericals burnt confession booths in Aguascalientes, Querétero, Irapuato and Guanajuato and confession was outlawed in Chiapas by General Jesús Agustín Castro. Ben Fallaw identified five factors that explain why the laity believed priests were predators: the church emphasised confession, there would be an invasive questioning of women before they got married to…

Juaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, mostly know to the public as El Chapo which means shorty in english. Born on April 4th, 1957 in La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. He's mostly know for being the guy that escaped prison 2 times and maybe some just know his from his job which is peddling drugs to different countries, specially The United States of America. Most people think El Chapo is just a regular guy. But what they dont know is that he's actually a psychopath. In the psychopath test he…

Maria Martinez Dominique Sharpe Survey of Civilizations I Professor Wallace Ancient Aliens Final Paper Mayas The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D. The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were…

Primary Source Document 1 Casas, Bartolomé De Las. “Bartoleme De Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies.” The Cuba Reader, Jan. 2009, pp. 12–14., doi:10.1215/9780822384915-003. Bartolomé de las Casas created this document. He was a 16th century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. His significance was that he was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. He arrived…

created to help the poor fight. The primary goal, other than fighting for all of the poor, was to redistribute the land. The day after NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed the Zapatistas took action and quickly took over four Chiapas towns. Rafael Guillén Vicente urged everyone to join the movement to go around capturing towns. The Zapatistas would fight for many days and would fend off the Mexican troops. In the first few battles they had around 100 people were killed.…

Maya, which is a tourist favorite. Mexico also has Los Cabos, which is located on the Baja California sur peninsula. Aside from the beautiful beaches that Mexico has, there is also a lot of culture and history in many of its cities like Mexico city, Chiapas, and Guanajuato. Mexico is also the largest producer of silver in the world, which brings in a lot of…

“What 's gone on is still going on” (Professor Ambruster, lecture Oct. 6, 2014). History repeats itself over the years in different circ The Mexican lower-class society has gained rights throughout the years. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 was an almost perfect document where the people were given rights and they gained free elections. Even though this document was established, the promises were not actually put to practice. The population found itself in the same problems that had existed…

Finally, one of the most recognized indigenous Mexican groups is the Aztec, is also the most powerful kingdom of all time in Mesoamerica. This enormous empire reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present day-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people lived in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities paying tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the great Aztec empire. The Aztec spoke a version of…

The Mayans: Civilization The Mayan Civilization was an American Native Civilization which grew to be one of the many advanced civilizations in America. The Mayans lived in Eastern and Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Western Honduras. While living in these various places the Mayans built enormous stone pyramids, temples and sculptures. The Mayans also had many accomplishments in mathematics and astronomy, which were recorded in hieroglyphics. Around 900 the Mayans…

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910, which ended dictatorship and establish a republic. Mexico was always going through rebellion. It had a difficult time finding a government that the people liked and supported. The main figures were Francisco Madero, Pascual Orozco, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. A constitution was drafted back in 1917, but it was reinforced into later on. The revolution was an attempt to overthrow the current president. This would result in civil war in which over 1…