Mexico

                                                                   





                                                                         


                                                                                 Mexico

Before European explorers arrived, Mexico's earliest residents were numerous groups of Native people, such as the Olmecs, Aztecs, and Mayans. By collaborating with the Toltecs and Mayans, the Aztecs  rose to power in the central valley of Mexico around 1427. The empire covered Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived in Veracruz and was invited to Tenochtitlán by King Moctezuma II, where he formed alliances. Some time later, Cortés and his followers attacked and defeated the Aztecs (1521), and named the new area Nueva España, which means New Spain. Mexico reached their independence on September 16th 1821. Years later, during the Mexican-American War, Mexico lost more than 500,000 square miles of land west of the Rio Grande, reaching all the way to the Pacific Ocean, thanks to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). Also, The Gadsden Purchase (1853-1854) gave the US about 30,000 square miles of northern Mexican land in exchange for $10 million.

First, the Spanish colonization of the Americas stripped Native peoples of all power and land.Then, they explode and murder everyone in the land in order to manage a sovereign country. Later battles with the United States over the Texan Republic's border. The loss of control over Mexican land can be attributed to two factors: first, imperialism, and second, the security that the US would obtain the majority of the territory based on Mexico's situation.



             


References

History.com Editors. (2009, November 9). History of Mexico - HISTORY. History.com. Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://www.history.com/topics/mexico/history-of-mexico

Milestones: 1830–1860. (n.d.). Milestones: 1830–1860 - Office of the Historian. Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/gadsden-purchase

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | United States-Mexico [1848]. (2022, January 26). Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Guadalupe-Hidalgo

 

                

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