Mexico Travel Guía

If we penetrate into the history of Mexico, this one will not stop surprising us. Olmec, Mayan, Aztec, colonizing, war of independence and the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, they form its history, providing to the country of a big cultural legacy.

Origins

The most ancient human traces of Mexico, they date of

20000 years.

Olmec.

Placed to approximately 50 kilometers to the City northwest of

Mexico, Teotihuacan is the first big civilization. Created more than 2000 years ago, it is a question of the first big Mexican city, being the “Pyramid of the Sun”, one of its strongest points.

Mayan period

Chiapas, the central part of Mexico and the peninsula of the Yucatan, are the geographical points where this big culture was restored. The Maya developed a complex writing system and a calendar. Lump Itzá was the city most representative of this period.

Aztecs

Tenochitlán was the city of the Aztecs, which was provided with numerous temples. The Aztecs knew the writing, were reading books and were studying the skies with a scientific curiosity. They believed that they were living in the “fifth world” and that four previous ones had been destroyed by the death of the sun and of the humanity.

Colonization

These millennial civilizations did smithereens to themselves between 1519 and 1521, when the Spanish invaded and destroyed the Aztec empire, submitting its inhabitants to the slavery. The Spanish re-baptized Tenochitlán as “Mexico City“ and established a strong social classes system, being the half-caste ones and the natives those who were located in the lowest classes.

Independence

About 1810 independence desires began arising between the natives, an independence that would not come until 1821, when the Mexican Republic was restored.