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Mexico is a nation found in North America, sharing a northern border with the United States and a southern one with Belize and Guatemala. To the west lies the Pacific Ocean and to the east is the Gulf of Mexico. The country is part of the Northern and Western Hemispheres. As a federal republic, it is also officially known as the United Mexican States much like the United States of America. As a one of the largest nations in the world, Mexico is almost three times the size of Texas;…

On December 8th 1531, La Virgen de Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego at the top of the Tepeyac hill. Using Nahuatl, Juan Diego’s native language, she asked that a church be erected in her honor. Juan Diego attempted twice to convince Archbishop Juan de Zumarraga (Archbishop of Mexico from 1530-1548) of the apparition of the virgin; as well he attempted to convince the archbishop to build a church to Honor La Virgen de Guadalupe. Unfortunately, his first two attempts were unsuccessful. As a…

The United Mexican States, the official name of Mexico, is a beautiful country with its own unique geography, people, institutions, and opportunities. Mexico is one of the countries that make up the North American continent and has a land area of 758,450 sq. ft. This makes Mexico the 13th largest country in the world based on area. In comparison, it is only one-fifth the size of the United States and 10 times larger than the state of Oklahoma. Mexico has lots of rugged mountain…

Mission Project For this mission trip I will be traveling to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico with nine other people to help fill a small orphanage with the necessary supplies they will need and to help with the Children while spreading the Word of God. We will be focusing on those are 18 and younger, and will be making sure we give them an abundance of supplies so they the orphanage can use the supplies we give them for years. Once we fully supply the orphanage we will be there for the children. We want…

Spaniards were enticed into action by the gold the Aztecs were wearing, prompting an Aztec rebellion against the orders of Montezuma. There are only a few surviving accounts of the Spanish conquest of Mexico as told by Aztec authors. According to Nahuatl text the Aztecs were celebrating the Fiesta of Huitzilopochtli, the god of the Sun. The Spaniards went to watch them perform this famous and praised dance, and seeing how rich they were and wanting the gold that they were wearing, he covered…

“The ‘Wretched Indians’: What We Don’t Learn in History Books” The Spanish Conquest as we know it has been largely painted as a valiant and remarkable achievement deemed justifiable through widely-accepted perceptions of European superiority. Indeed, when taught about these expeditions, rarely are we given sources that encourage us to picture the Indigenous peoples fighting on the same side as the Spaniards; After all, the textbooks say they were the ‘bad guys’ to beat, right? Matthew…

The Mexica, a tribe of Nahuatl-speaking people, travelled south from what is now known as Mexico, to the waters on the coast of the islands of Lake Texcoco in the valley of Mexico. The Mexica created an innovative and ever expanding empire that revolved around the identical cities of Tenochtitlan and Tlaleloco. In comparison, these cities were just as big, if not bigger than the city of Europe’s Istanbul in the year 1500. The Aztec empire was created with the Mexica at its center. When the…

it is clear to see how corn made possible the development of societies, cultures, and beliefs. Even today, the domestication of corn plays a major role in the way our society operates, especially in the latino communities. People ranging from the Nahuatls, who remain close to their origins and speak the ancient Aztec language, to the third generation of latinos who live hundreds of kilometers away, corn will always find a way to be a part of life. Before the domestication of…

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz came from a poor family, which meant that she did not have too many opportunities to have an education since women could not have the same opportunities that men did. When Juana Ines was a little girl she had a passion to read and at the young age of eight Juana Ines began to write. Juana Ines still wanted to study since she had a vast knowledge with reading books and was really intelligent. Although she did not have an adequate education she had found ways to be…

Cortes able to defeat the powerful Aztecs? He had 11 ships with several hundred men and 16 horses. He had two interpreters, a Spanish castaway who had been enslaved by Mayan-speaking Indians and a female Indian slave Malinche who spoke Mayan and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec rulers. He used his interpreters to learn of unrest in the Aztec empire and heard that Tenochtitlan had gold and other wealth. He burned his ships to keep his mutinous troops in line and made allies with twenty thousand…